Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An act, especially a rite or ceremony, which precedes or prefigures an event: opposed to postfact.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Something done before another act.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Something
done before anotheract .
Etymologies
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ante- + fact
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