Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To come, exist, or occur before in time.
- intransitive verb To be in front of or prior to in order.
- intransitive verb To go in advance of.
- intransitive verb To preface; introduce.
- intransitive verb To be before in time, order, or position.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go before in place; walk in front of; advance before; hence, specifically, to go before in rank or importance; take precedence of.
- To go before in the order of time; occur or take place before; exist before.
- To put something before; preface; introduce as by a preface or prelude.
- To go before in place; walk in front; specifically, to take precedence; have superior authority; hence, to prevail.
- To come first in the order of time; occur or exist previously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.
- transitive verb To go before in place, rank, or importance.
- transitive verb rare To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with
by orwith before the instrumental object.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To go before, go in front of.
- verb To have higher
rank than (someone or something else).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be earlier in time; go back further
- verb move ahead (of others) in time or space
- verb be the predecessor of
- verb furnish with a preface or introduction
- verb come before
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The poured-out bottle might suggest that he thought of me as a pocket-sized prohibitionist minister, a vocation he respected; but the nickname may precede my fears.
CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988
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The poured-out bottle might suggest that he thought of me as a pocket-sized prohibitionist minister, a vocation he respected; but the nickname may precede my fears.
CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988
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The last clause seems at first view, to refer to the words which immediately precede, which is to understand our Savior as aggravating the guilt of those who delivered him to Pilate, from the consideration of Pilate's power having been derived from above.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee
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Christ; wherefore Gregory says in a homily (Hom. vii in Evang.) that therefore did John baptize, "that, being consistent with his office of precursor, as he had preceded our Lord in birth, so he might also by baptizing precede Him who was about to baptize."
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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From the output one can also see that all Where and Source consumption calls precede any OrderBy calls, since the ordering operator eagerly drains its source before carrying out the ordering and passing the results to its consumer.
B# .NET Technical Community Homepage bart 2010
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Long and happy history: Two NIT titles precede Tulsa's appearance Reader comments (8)
unknown title 2009
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I be curious to hear more about this "precede" you mentioned, although I highly doubt one could use it to accomplish any form of legal residential use.
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When "fat and chewy" precede "chocolate chip cookies" you know it's gonna be a good recipe.
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He is to 'precede' them there, thus lightly indicating the new form of their relations to Him, marked during the forty days by a distance which prepared for his final withdrawal.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868
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"precede" conventional monetary policy action, central bank policy makers said in the minutes of the meeting released today.
Kristianto2010 commented on the word precede
According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 1 Thessalonian 4:15
March 4, 2011