Meaning of prejacent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Existing previously, preexistent.
2. Before; situated in front.
   archaic
3. Laid out earlier, prior.

Examples

“The Platonickes and Stoicks acknowledged a divine understandinge to have made the world, but out of prejacent matter, which they conccaved to be eternall, and to acknowledge no maker.”

“Again, to be created from nothing is not to have been formed from prejacent matter (although in another sense, the newly created body is made from matter).”

“Like the vowels, if you pronounce a given consonant farther backward or forward than the location per the chart, then you probably pronounce its prejacent chart neighbor ahead of that location and its postjacent chart neighbor further back”

“So, every exception set S that is not a subset of C(={b}) makes the prejacent statement false, i.e. makes it so that some (NPᵂ–S) (VPᵂ)=0.”

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