单词 | precessor |
释义 | † precessorn. Obsolete (archaic in later use). A person who precedes another in a particular office or position; a predecessor. 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 1454–5 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1890–1 (1891) 15 157 The same procurators receyued of Dauid Englond & Richard Bransby their precessours of the arrerages of theyr accomptes & the churche is store iiijli xjs iiijd. 1483 Rolls of Parl. VI. 257/2 The seid Master and College, or their Predecessours or Precessours. 1486 ( in F. J. Furnivall Gild of St. Mary, Lichfield (1920) 20 (MED) Euery master of the gild..shall alwayes reseyve of ther precessors the kayes, with the Indentures, of the seid cofre. 1548–67 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Predecessore, the precessour or foregoer. 1602 L. Lloyd Stratagems of Ierusalem ii. xv. 233 Alexander..released many prisoners and captiues of the Iews, to the number of 120000. (which Ptol. Lagus his precessor had brought from Iudah to Egipt). 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. iii. 57 in Church-hist. Brit. Fordham was herein more Court-like..then Thomas Arundel, his Precessour Bishop of Ely. 1877 J. A. Heraud Uxmal ii. 29 Much need she hath of preparation, ere She rush into the presence; wanting she In her precessor's negligent presumption. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1454 |
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