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Decedent :: Decedent (n.) A deceased person.

Preambulation :: Preambulation (n.) A walking or going before; precedence.

Concede :: Concede (v. t.) To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of..

Baronet :: Baronet (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners..

Ascendant :: Ascendant (n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) One who precedes or goes in front.

Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..

That :: That (pron., a., conj., & adv.) To introduce a purpose; -- usually followed by may, or might, and frequently preceded by so, in order, to the end, etc..

Seceded :: Seceded (imp. & p. p.) of Seced.

Gerund :: Gerund (n.) A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, Ic haebbe mete to etanne (I have meat to eat.) In Modern English the name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a stone..

Seceder :: Seceder (n.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called..

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..

Retrocedent :: Retrocedent (a.) Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout..

Retire :: Retire (v. i.) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs..

Preference :: Preference (n.) The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as, to give him his preference..

Hear :: Hear (v. t.) To accede to the demand or wishes of; to listen to and answer favorably; to favor.

Ranter :: Ranter (n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt..

Accede :: Accede (v. i.) To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.

Enthymeme :: Enthymeme (n.) An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble..

Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

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