prejacent

Meanings

Adjective

• Existing previously, preexistent.
• Before; situated in front.
• Laid out earlier, prior.

Noun

• A proposition laid out previously; a proposition from which another proposition is inferred.

Origin

• Multiple origins. Borrowed from Middle French prejacent during the sixteenth century. Also attested in twelfth century British sources, from post-classical Latin praeiacens.