单词 | to take precedence |
释义 | > as lemmasto take precedence 2. Frequently to take precedence. extracted from precedencen. a. The fact of being above or ahead of another or others in order, rank, or importance; superiority; the foremost place, pre-eminence. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [noun] advantagea1393 prioritya1425 prerogativec1425 prestance1470 betterness1492 superioritya1500 majority1552 start1569 melioritya1586 precedence1587 superiorship1587 precedency1593 priory1600 preferency1602 preference1603 precession1613 betterhood1615 prestancy1615 eminence1702 superiorness1730 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1404/2 Truth is euer constreined to yeeld the precedence and preheminence to hir yokefellow falshood. 1610 Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. II. 169 If he culd..be rid of the precedens of my father wha he judgit..likelie to preceid him & to carye the cheiff sway of the estait. 1694 J. Crowne Regulus i. 8 Let me have the Precedence in your Heart. 1704 J. Addison in tr. Ovid Metamorph. in Poet. Misc.: 5th Pt. 587 In which Part Ovid's Copiousness of invention, and great Insight into Nature, has given him the Precedence to all the Poets that ever came before or after him. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 9 That form..Framed for the service of a free-born will, Asserts precedence, and bespeaks control. View more context for this quotation 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 52 The Andalucian horse takes precedence of all. 1884 Manch. Examiner 17 June 5/1 The payment of interest..will take precedence of other Egyptian obligations. 1942 G. M. Trevelyan Eng. Social Hist. xii. 385 By an unwritten law of the road, the wagon..had precedence, and all other traffic must draw aside to let it pass. 1988 A. Storr School of Genius vi. 82 For the deeply religious..attachment to God takes precedence over attachment to persons. b. spec. The right of preceding others in ceremonies and social formalities; the fact of occupying the highest or a higher position in an assembly or procession; (hence) the order to be ceremonially observed by people of different rank, according to an acknowledged or legally determined system. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > [noun] > right of precedence1598 precedency1601 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > [noun] > precedence right sidea1325 fordeal1513 precedence1598 precedency1601 to take the right hand of1607 pas1707 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes I am no auctorised Herauld to marshall your precedence. ?a1600 (title) The Copie of a Booke of Precedence of all estates and playcinge to ther degrees. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. 119 Claiming a precedence as Duke, and Peer. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 529. ¶1 Disputes concerning Rank and Precedence. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 206 He moved, that a letter might be writ, giving him the precedence of the Lord Chancellour. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xxviii. 345 The Order of Precedence..was first established upon a definite system by a Statute of Henry VIII. 1899 Daily News 21 Dec. 6/1 The great precedence question, which for a while raged so fiercely in the bosoms of our Knights Bachelors, is..now satisfactorily settled. 1934 R. Graves I, Claudius xx. 292 Piso's wife, Plancina, was jealous of Agrippina because, as Germanicus's wife, she took precedence over her at all official functions. 1987 S. Weintraub Victoria (1988) v. 116 She complained..about proper precedence being ignored in her seating. < as lemmas |
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