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Preceding   /prisˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Preceding

adjective
1.
Existing or coming before.
2.
Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office.  Synonyms: past, retiring.


Precede

verb
(past & past part. preceded; pres. part. preceding)
1.
Be earlier in time; go back further.  Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, predate.
2.
Come before.  Synonym: predate.
3.
Be the predecessor of.  Synonym: come before.
4.
Move ahead (of others) in time or space.  Synonym: lead.
5.
Furnish with a preface or introduction.  Synonyms: introduce, preface, premise.  "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"



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"Preceding" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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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