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Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign..

Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o

Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.

Forename :: Forename (n.) A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.

Antecedence :: Antecedence (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence.

Ultimate :: Ultimate (a.) Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final..

Forego :: Forego (v. i.) To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.

Predecessor :: Predecessor (n.) One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position..

Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases.

Horror :: Horror (n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor..

President :: President (n.) Precedent.

Formulary :: Formulary (n.) A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of precedents..

Pupa :: Pupa (n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage..

Fortieth :: Fortieth (a.) Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts..

Precedential :: Precedential (a.) Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions..

Priority :: Priority (a.) Precedence; superior rank.

Scutum :: Scutum (n.) The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students..

Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc..

Molar :: Molar (n.) Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth..

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