deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori. Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible.
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Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.
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used before dates after the supposed year Christ was born
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supposedly used in laments by Adonis a or relating to or like Adonis s having a rhythm consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee or a trochee
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something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.
