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precedential, a. Now rare.|prɛsɪˈdɛnʃəl|
[f. precedent n. or precedence, after consequential, differential, etc.]
1. Of the nature of or constituting a precedent; furnishing a guide or rule for subsequent cases.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 31 These were Precedentiall to their Successors. 1693Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 404 His Excell. had made many steps of Condescention to them which he had not done in another government, and [which] was not presidentiall. 1893Independent (N.Y.) 19 Oct., If he is appointed, any applicant..can claim..appointment on the strength of this precedential case.
¶b. erron. Supported by precedent, precedented: in comb. non-precedential, unprecedented.
1642R. Watson Serm. Schisme 29 They..can fix on the same an unparallel'd, non-presidentiall interpretation.
2. Having precedence, preceding, preliminary.
1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Precedential..that goes before or surpasseth. 1683Howe Union among Protestants Wks. (1846) 121 Negotiations..precedential to the concord they endeavoured between the Saxon and the Helvetian Churches. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) III. 4 It becomes necessary to distinguish the several precedential or introductory facts..from the ultimate principal fact.
3. Relating to (social) precedence.
1836Fraser's Mag XIII. 63 Charles the Fifth settled a precedential hubbub between two dames of high degree. |