precedaneous
English
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editprecedaneous (not comparable)
- (obsolete) preceding; antecedent; previous
- a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
- The necessity of this performance to any undertaking may appear by those several precedaneous methods in common life , which have nothing in themselves to ingratiate them unto us
References
edit“precedaneous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.