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 another act.

Etymologies

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ante- +‎ fact

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