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verb

Precede v. t. (past & past part. preceded; pres. part. preceding)

To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin."

To go before in place, rank, or importance.

To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; used with by or with before the instrumental object. (R.) "It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration."

adjective

Preceding adj.

Going before; opposed to following.

(Astron.) In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2.

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Etymology of 'Preceding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to go, so that, evidently, the previous drunkenness was not an omission, but the cause of an omission. Consequently, we must say that the omission begins to be imputed to him as a sin, when the time comes for the action; and yet this is on account of a preceding cause by reason of which the ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... pretenders to the philosopher's stone whose lives have been already narrated, this and the preceding century produced a great number of writers, who inundated literature with their books upon the subject. In fact, most of the learned men of that age had some faith in it. Van Helmont, Borrichius, Kircher, Boerhaave, and a score of others, though not professed alchymists, ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

... true explanation of a great many of the alleged cases is perfectly clear to us. When the child is born with any peculiar characteristic, the mother hunts for some experience in the preceding months that might explain it. If she succeeds in finding any experience of her own at all resembling in its effects the effect which the infant shows, she considers she has proved causation, has established a ...

— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

... like the five preceding days—hot, restless, aimless; and the next night Paul sat on the porch again, and listened to the rush of the river, and Min Tolley's laugh at the "five hundred" table, and the Hopps' baby's lullaby. And again he composed his resignation, ...

— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris

... to be distributed; no patronage to be pledged for the support of delegates. The preliminary arrangements of battle are strangely dissimilar to those of any preceding convention that has been held in this country for half ...

— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams

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