Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To precede.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go before in time, and sometimes in place, rank, or logical order; precede.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To go before; to
precede - verb To
predate orantedate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be earlier in time; go back further
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These are foods that antecede and later accompany the nicotine and alcohol that youth will graduate to further stimulate the reward centers of the brain.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Casinos For Kids? MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2012
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These are foods that antecede and later accompany the nicotine and alcohol that youth will graduate to further stimulate the reward centers of the brain.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Casinos For Kids? MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2012
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No deserto que antecede o regresso à rotação total.
... Artur 2008
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After all, the concepts of love, treating people with respect, doing to others what you would want to be done to you, someone being holy and good, etc. antecede Jesus by many millenia.
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For another, on the previous evening-and days do seem to antecede days-at the Elk Horn Motor Lodge, the Assistant Undersecretary had sounded out the citizens of Mottburg.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
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Redeemer, were to be of two kinds -- that they were to arise at different times, and from different sources -- that one was to be a corruption of religion, the other a rejection of it -- that the former was to antecede and prepare the way for the latter.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee
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And when we consider the assurances given us, that these declensions were to antecede the universal prevalence of true religion; they may also serve to increase our hope.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee
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It must antecede death, or it will be of no avail.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee
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The sensual appetites have their own proper sensible objects to which they naturally incline, and since original sin has broken the bond which held them in complete subjection to the will, they may antecede the will in their actions and tend to their own proper objects inordinately.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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This is another instance of what is commonly called "practical;" as though mental processes must not necessarily antecede efficient action, and as though there was not then at hand abundant data for brains to work on, without any expenditure of money.
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