antecessorn.

Brit.

/ˈantᵻsɛsə/, U.S.

/ˈæn(t)əˌsɛsər/

Forms: Middle English entecessour, Middle English–1500s antecessur, Middle English–1500s antesessour, Middle English–1600s antecessour, 1500s– antecessor, 1600s antecesser; Scottish pre-1700 antecessour, pre-1700 antecessowr, pre-1700 antycessowr, pre-1700 1700s– antecessor.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French antecessour; Latin antecēssor.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman antecessour, Anglo-Norman and Middle French antecesseur predecessor, ancestor (c1250 in Old French; French antécesseur ; 1690 in specific use denoting a professor of law), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin antecēssor soldier sent ahead of a military unit on the march, scout, (later) predecessor in office (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also teacher of law (6th cent. in Justinian), ancestor (frequently from 11th cent. in British sources) < antecēss- , past participial stem of antecēdere antecede v. + -or -or suffix. Compare ancestor n., predecessor n.

1. A person who precedes another in time or order.

a. A person who precedes another as holder of a position, office, title, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > one who goes first or predecessor

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before-goerc1384

antecessora1387

predecessora1387

oldersc1450

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forn-goer1483

before-gangerc1520

Adam1553

foregoer1556

preventer1598

forerunnera1616

decessor1647

first-comer1690

precursor1792

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 301 He was a ȝong bisshop, and fowede þe stabilnesse of his antecessours [L. antecessorum].

a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) i. 17 I cam not to Ierusalem to þe apostolys, myn antecessourys [L. ad antecessores meos apostolos].

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vii. l. 2641 His prewalegis..Þat befor his antecessouris [a1530 Royal antycessowrys] Gat.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxi. f. lxxxx^v/1 Lewys had promotyd a yonge man named Frederike to the Se of Utrik, and to hym had gyuen sad and good Exhortacyon that he shulde folowe the stablenes of his antesessours.

1604 Abp. G. Abbot Reasons Dr. Hill Vnmasked viii. 325 In the very next Decree..he [sc. Gelasius] saith thus touching an Epistle of Leo one of his Antecessors in the Roman see.

1636 W. Prynne Unbishoping of Timothy & Titus 107 Before that hee went up to the Apostles his Antecessors.

1712 L. Howel View of Pontificate 191 I do not see why Leo VIII. not quite so wicked as some of his Antecessors, should be only called a Pseudopope.

1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Archit. (1818) 54 The custom of all his antecessors in that profession.

1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi viii. §1. 222 This deity [sc. Zeus] has ancestors and antecessors.

1907 G. F. Abbott Israel in Europe xiii. 205 Sixtus V., actuated by a broader and humaner spirit..and by a more enlightened thirst for gold than had animated any of his antecessors or contemporaries, abolished these cruel decrees.

2003 World News Connection (Nexis) 18 Feb. The United States,..having had a recent change of government has shifted away from the policy of consensus practiced by George W. Bush's antecessors.

b. An ancestor, a forebear; (more generally) a member of a preceding generation.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun]

elder-fathereOE

fatherOE

elder971

alderOE

eldfatherOE

forme-fadera1200

ancestorc1300

grandsirec1300

aiela1325

belsirea1325

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tupuna1845

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 4512 My richesse and myne tresoures–Alle þat hadden myne antecessoures.

c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 11893 He myght haue his burieles And ligge among his antecessoures.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 65 Of his grauntsirs fader & of alle his antecessours.

c1503 tr. Magna Carta in R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxi/2 Our antecessurs and successours.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxxvii. 736 Our fathers and Antecessours of olde tyme.

1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande i. sig. A.iv (margin) His [sc. King Edward's] posteritie is more excellente then his antecessours.

a1657 J. Balfour Hist. Wks. (1824) II. 223 Solemley interrid amongest his antecessers.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 210 in Justice Vindicated The Kings noble Progenitors and Antecessors of the Nobles of this Realm.

1816 R. Polwhele Hist. Cornwall (new ed.) II. ii. 90 (note) As the earls of Cornwall exercised their jura regalia in the erecting of burghs in the county, so this Reginald and his antecessors, exercised theirs in erecting the burgh of Essa, or Saltash, within their honor of Trematon.

1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. i. 13 Few men..can pardon the children of their antecessors for daring to exist.

1978 Speculum 53 239 Most of the women named are widows, and..the chronological complexity of the survey allows their names to be compared with those of the current men's fathers or other antecessors.

2011 A. Büchler Islamic Law in Europe? v. 125 Its [sc. Islamic law's] formulation had reached such a stage of completeness and finality that all future generations were bound by the views of their antecessors.

c. Chiefly historical. A predecessor in the possession of property; a person from or through whom property is inherited.

ΚΠ

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) i. f. vi^v Wrytte of assise of the dethe of his antecessour at y^e comon lawe.

1809 W. Bawdwen tr. Domesday Bk. 624 Robert claims the land of Outi..to be in the soke of his Antecessor Lepi.

1887 T. Sinclair Sinclairs of Eng. lii. 381 This Lord William had a Geffrey de Sancto Claro of Southampton, Hampshire, as one of his antecessors, who is noted as holding some land from the counts of the island.

1888 A. Abbott New Cases Decisions Courts N.Y. XX. 61 A half-brother of the deceased, whose estate he inherits, is deemed to derive the inheritance from an ancestor, as the term refers to ante-cessors in estate, and not necessarily to ante-cessors in pedigree.

1991 R. Fleming Kings & Lords in Conquest Eng. (2004) ii. iv. 128 In Norfolk Hugh de Montfort acquired land held by a freeman of his antecessor Guthmund in Wick.

2. A precursor or antecedent; a thing which has been followed or replaced by another.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > antecedent or precursor

forerunnerOE

forridelc1000

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1657 R. Turner tr. C. H. Nuisement Sal, Lumen, & Spiritus Mundi Philosophici ii. iii. 157 Black..is the prime sign of earthiness, adustion, and corruption, and..the antecessor of putrefaction and corruption.

1707 R. Franck Admirable & Indefatigable Adventures Nine Pious Pilgrims 38 Corruption is the Antecessor or Forerunner of Generation.

1799 J. Banks Let. 6 Jan. in P. Smith Mem. & Corr. Late Sir J. E. Smith (1832) II. viii. 80 From your hand it [sc. a book] will also receive many other advantages of various kinds,—enough to make it far surpass all its antecessors.

1822 J. M. Blanco y Crespo Vargas I. iii. 83 An answering yell..as suddenly put a stop to their flight as its antecessor had produced it.

1861 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 151 38 We..operate backwards on the last letter (viz. by changing it into its immediate antecessor in the alphabet ).

1872 Sun & Central Press 30 Nov. 12/1 The ‘Constitution’ of 1872, though very widely different from that of 1672, is entitled to the name no less than its antecessor was.

1905 Manch. Guardian 13 May 9/2 The effects of its [sc. the torpedo-vessel's] antecessor, the scarcely less terrible fireship, were almost always wrought through panic.

1998 Time Out N.Y. 31 Dec. 109/3 Flesh of My Flesh is not only the most uncalled-for-album of the year but also a weak follow-up to a hard-to-swallow antecessor.

2007 C. Ramirez-Faria Conc. Encycl. World Hist. 653/2 The written language called Linear B [is] believed to be Mycenaean and possibly the antecessor of Greek.

3. A teacher of law at a school or university. Now historical (esp. Ancient History).

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Antecessor..is particularly used in some Universities for a Professor, who teaches, or lectures the Civil Law.

1802 A. Browne Compend. View of Civil Law (ed. 2) I. i. i. 51 Reitz conjectures, with much probability, that Theophilus had publicly dictated this paraphrase in his capacity of an antecessor and expounder of the law.

1843 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (Amer. ed.) 666/1 There is a Latin epitome of these novelise by Julian, a teacher of law at Constantinople, which contains 125 novelise. The epitome was probably made in the time of Justinian, and the author was probably antecessor at Constantinople.

1883 S. Amos Hist. & Princ. Civil Law of Rome iii. i. 395 The author of the treatise, it is now generally believed, was the same as the professor (antecessor) of law at Constantinople, to whom, with other professors, Justinian addressed the celebrated constitution prefixed to the Digest.

1971 A. H. M. Jones et al. Prosopogr. Later Rom. Empire I. 421 Dorotheus 4... Teacher of law (antecessor) at Berytus a. (530-) 533-534.

2010 A. Laniado in H. Börm & J. Wiesehöfer Commutatio et Contentio 280 As an antecessor, Stephanus taught either in Beirut or in Constantinople.

†4. A member of the advance guard of an army. Cf. antecursor n. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > member of advance guard

vaunt-courier1560

avant-courier1603

antecessor1753

society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one learned in the law > in specific branches or kinds of law

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Justinianist1588

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feudist1607

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Romanist1647

pundit1661

antecessor1753

constitutionalist1766

civil1776

publicist1795

codist1831

theologo-jurista1843

internationalist1855

Sabinian1862

Pandectist1895

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Antecessors, in the antient art of war..a party of horse dispatched before the agmen or body of an army..also denominated Antecursores.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	antecessor
释义	antecessorn. Brit. /ˈantᵻsɛsə/, U.S. /ˈæn(t)əˌsɛsər/ Forms: Middle English entecessour, Middle English–1500s antecessur, Middle English–1500s antesessour, Middle English–1600s antecessour, 1500s– antecessor, 1600s antecesser; Scottish pre-1700 antecessour, pre-1700 antecessowr, pre-1700 antycessowr, pre-1700 1700s– antecessor. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French antecessour; Latin antecēssor. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman antecessour, Anglo-Norman and Middle French antecesseur predecessor, ancestor (c1250 in Old French; French antécesseur ; 1690 in specific use denoting a professor of law), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin antecēssor soldier sent ahead of a military unit on the march, scout, (later) predecessor in office (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also teacher of law (6th cent. in Justinian), ancestor (frequently from 11th cent. in British sources) < antecēss- , past participial stem of antecēdere antecede v. + -or -or suffix. Compare ancestor n., predecessor n. 1. A person who precedes another in time or order. a. A person who precedes another as holder of a position, office, title, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > one who goes first or predecessor ancestorc1300 foreganger1340 before-goerc1384 antecessora1387 predecessora1387 oldersc1450 precessor1454 forn-goer1483 before-gangerc1520 Adam1553 foregoer1556 preventer1598 forerunnera1616 decessor1647 first-comer1690 precursor1792 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 301 He was a ȝong bisshop, and fowede þe stabilnesse of his antecessours [L. antecessorum]. a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) i. 17 I cam not to Ierusalem to þe apostolys, myn antecessourys [L. ad antecessores meos apostolos]. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vii. l. 2641 His prewalegis..Þat befor his antecessouris [a1530 Royal antycessowrys] Gat. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxi. f. lxxxx^v/1 Lewys had promotyd a yonge man named Frederike to the Se of Utrik, and to hym had gyuen sad and good Exhortacyon that he shulde folowe the stablenes of his antesessours. 1604 Abp. G. Abbot Reasons Dr. Hill Vnmasked viii. 325 In the very next Decree..he [sc. Gelasius] saith thus touching an Epistle of Leo one of his Antecessors in the Roman see. 1636 W. Prynne Unbishoping of Timothy & Titus 107 Before that hee went up to the Apostles his Antecessors. 1712 L. Howel View of Pontificate 191 I do not see why Leo VIII. not quite so wicked as some of his Antecessors, should be only called a Pseudopope. 1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Archit. (1818) 54 The custom of all his antecessors in that profession. 1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi viii. §1. 222 This deity [sc. Zeus] has ancestors and antecessors. 1907 G. F. Abbott Israel in Europe xiii. 205 Sixtus V., actuated by a broader and humaner spirit..and by a more enlightened thirst for gold than had animated any of his antecessors or contemporaries, abolished these cruel decrees. 2003 World News Connection (Nexis) 18 Feb. The United States,..having had a recent change of government has shifted away from the policy of consensus practiced by George W. Bush's antecessors. b. An ancestor, a forebear; (more generally) a member of a preceding generation. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] elder-fathereOE fatherOE elder971 alderOE eldfatherOE forme-fadera1200 ancestorc1300 grandsirec1300 aiela1325 belsirea1325 predecessora1325 forefather1377 morea1382 progenitorc1384 antecessorc1400 forn-fatherc1460 forebear1488 ancient1540 antecestrec1550 fore-grandsirec1550 grandfather1575 ascendant1604 forerunnera1616 ancienter1654 tupuna1845 c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 4512 My richesse and myne tresoures–Alle þat hadden myne antecessoures. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 11893 He myght haue his burieles And ligge among his antecessoures. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 65 Of his grauntsirs fader & of alle his antecessours. c1503 tr. Magna Carta in R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxi/2 Our antecessurs and successours. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxxvii. 736 Our fathers and Antecessours of olde tyme. 1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande i. sig. A.iv (margin) His [sc. King Edward's] posteritie is more excellente then his antecessours. a1657 J. Balfour Hist. Wks. (1824) II. 223 Solemley interrid amongest his antecessers. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 210 in Justice Vindicated The Kings noble Progenitors and Antecessors of the Nobles of this Realm. 1816 R. Polwhele Hist. Cornwall (new ed.) II. ii. 90 (note) As the earls of Cornwall exercised their jura regalia in the erecting of burghs in the county, so this Reginald and his antecessors, exercised theirs in erecting the burgh of Essa, or Saltash, within their honor of Trematon. 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. i. 13 Few men..can pardon the children of their antecessors for daring to exist. 1978 Speculum 53 239 Most of the women named are widows, and..the chronological complexity of the survey allows their names to be compared with those of the current men's fathers or other antecessors. 2011 A. Büchler Islamic Law in Europe? v. 125 Its [sc. Islamic law's] formulation had reached such a stage of completeness and finality that all future generations were bound by the views of their antecessors. c. Chiefly historical. A predecessor in the possession of property; a person from or through whom property is inherited. ΚΠ 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) i. f. vi^v Wrytte of assise of the dethe of his antecessour at y^e comon lawe. 1809 W. Bawdwen tr. Domesday Bk. 624 Robert claims the land of Outi..to be in the soke of his Antecessor Lepi. 1887 T. Sinclair Sinclairs of Eng. lii. 381 This Lord William had a Geffrey de Sancto Claro of Southampton, Hampshire, as one of his antecessors, who is noted as holding some land from the counts of the island. 1888 A. Abbott New Cases Decisions Courts N.Y. XX. 61 A half-brother of the deceased, whose estate he inherits, is deemed to derive the inheritance from an ancestor, as the term refers to ante-cessors in estate, and not necessarily to ante-cessors in pedigree. 1991 R. Fleming Kings & Lords in Conquest Eng. (2004) ii. iv. 128 In Norfolk Hugh de Montfort acquired land held by a freeman of his antecessor Guthmund in Wick. 2. A precursor or antecedent; a thing which has been followed or replaced by another. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > antecedent or precursor forerunnerOE forridelc1000 messengerc1300 precursora1500 waymaker1574 postiliona1586 ushera1586 precedence1598 vaunt-courier1598 precedent1599 prodromus1602 ante-disposition1611 precedency1611 prodrome1611 antecedent1612 antedating1633 leading card1635 prodromy1647 antecessor1657 precursorya1660 prodromist1716 morning star1721 skirmisher1820 antecursor1850 1657 R. Turner tr. C. H. Nuisement Sal, Lumen, & Spiritus Mundi Philosophici ii. iii. 157 Black..is the prime sign of earthiness, adustion, and corruption, and..the antecessor of putrefaction and corruption. 1707 R. Franck Admirable & Indefatigable Adventures Nine Pious Pilgrims 38 Corruption is the Antecessor or Forerunner of Generation. 1799 J. Banks Let. 6 Jan. in P. Smith Mem. & Corr. Late Sir J. E. Smith (1832) II. viii. 80 From your hand it [sc. a book] will also receive many other advantages of various kinds,—enough to make it far surpass all its antecessors. 1822 J. M. Blanco y Crespo Vargas I. iii. 83 An answering yell..as suddenly put a stop to their flight as its antecessor had produced it. 1861 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 151 38 We..operate backwards on the last letter (viz. by changing it into its immediate antecessor in the alphabet ). 1872 Sun & Central Press 30 Nov. 12/1 The ‘Constitution’ of 1872, though very widely different from that of 1672, is entitled to the name no less than its antecessor was. 1905 Manch. Guardian 13 May 9/2 The effects of its [sc. the torpedo-vessel's] antecessor, the scarcely less terrible fireship, were almost always wrought through panic. 1998 Time Out N.Y. 31 Dec. 109/3 Flesh of My Flesh is not only the most uncalled-for-album of the year but also a weak follow-up to a hard-to-swallow antecessor. 2007 C. Ramirez-Faria Conc. Encycl. World Hist. 653/2 The written language called Linear B [is] believed to be Mycenaean and possibly the antecessor of Greek. 3. A teacher of law at a school or university. Now historical (esp. Ancient History). ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Antecessor..is particularly used in some Universities for a Professor, who teaches, or lectures the Civil Law. 1802 A. Browne Compend. View of Civil Law (ed. 2) I. i. i. 51 Reitz conjectures, with much probability, that Theophilus had publicly dictated this paraphrase in his capacity of an antecessor and expounder of the law. 1843 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (Amer. ed.) 666/1 There is a Latin epitome of these novelise by Julian, a teacher of law at Constantinople, which contains 125 novelise. The epitome was probably made in the time of Justinian, and the author was probably antecessor at Constantinople. 1883 S. Amos Hist. & Princ. Civil Law of Rome iii. i. 395 The author of the treatise, it is now generally believed, was the same as the professor (antecessor) of law at Constantinople, to whom, with other professors, Justinian addressed the celebrated constitution prefixed to the Digest. 1971 A. H. M. Jones et al. Prosopogr. Later Rom. Empire I. 421 Dorotheus 4... Teacher of law (antecessor) at Berytus a. (530-) 533-534. 2010 A. Laniado in H. Börm & J. Wiesehöfer Commutatio et Contentio 280 As an antecessor, Stephanus taught either in Beirut or in Constantinople. †4. A member of the advance guard of an army. Cf. antecursor n. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > member of advance guard vaunt-courier1560 avant-courier1603 antecessor1753 society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one learned in the law > in specific branches or kinds of law civiliana1425 civilistc1550 common lawyer1552 Justinianist1588 tenurist1588 commoner1591 feudist1607 criminalista1631 criminista1631 Romanist1647 pundit1661 antecessor1753 constitutionalist1766 civil1776 publicist1795 codist1831 theologo-jurista1843 internationalist1855 Sabinian1862 Pandectist1895 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 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