precedaneous

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌpɹɛsɪˈdeɪni.əs/

Adjective

precedaneous (not comparable)

  1. (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

precedaneous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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