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▪ I. predecease, n.|priːdɪˈsiːs|
[f. pre- A. 2 + decease n., after next. Cf. F. prédécès (1690 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
The decease or death of one person before another.
a1765Erskine Inst. Law Scot. (1773) iii. ix. §21 Upon the dissolution of a marriage by the predecease of the wife without issue. 1883Stubbs' Merc. Circular 28 Nov. 1046/1 The same right..which the wife formerly had in the husband's [estate] on his predecease. 1888Ld. Watson in Law Rep., Ho. Lords XIII. 381 Her consent had no reference to the rights arising to her next of kin upon her own pre-decease.
▪ II. predecease, v.|priːdɪˈsiːs|
Also 6 præ-.
[f. pre- A. 1 + decease v. Cf. F. prédécéder (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
trans. To die before (some person, or, rarely, some event).
1593Shakes. Lucr. 1756 If children prædecease progenitours, We are their ofspring and they none of ours. 1828Scott Diary 24 May in Lockhart, Burke was under the strange hallucination that his son who predeceased him was a man of greater talents than himself. 1858Gladstone Homer III. 32 Several of the heroes who predeceased the war. 1872Jacox Aspects Authorsh. xxii. 370 How continually do the words predecease (as they say in Scotland) the author of them!
b. intr. or absol. To die first or before the other.
a1765Erskine Inst. Law Scot. (1773) iii. ix. §21 Where the husband predeceases, neither widow nor children can claim a right in any part of the heirship moveables.
Hence predeˈceased ppl. a., previously or formerly deceased; predeˈceaser, one who dies before another.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, v. i. 76 Will you mocke at an ancient Tradition began vppon an honourable respect, and worne as a memorable Trophee of predeceased valor? 1880Muirhead Gaius Digest 506 The praetors admitted the survivor of husband or wife to bonorum possessio ab intestato of the predeceaser, next after cognates. Ibid. 520 He or she might take..the usufruct..of a third part of the predeceaser's estate. |