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How to sign: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Similiar / Same: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root
Categories: relation, relative
Within this category: ancestress, forebear, forefather, foremother, progenitor
How to sign: a preceding occurrence or cause or event
Categories: cause
How to sign: anything that precedes something similar in time
"phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience";
Similiar / Same: forerunner
Categories: temporal relation
