precede
IPA: prɪsˈid
noun
- Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)
verb
- (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
- (transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
- (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
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Examples of "precede" in Sentences
- Explosions precede fire.
- The conspiracy preceded the attacks.
- It's a precedent of picaresque novel.
- It may precede the diagnosis of the tumor.
- That is the standard, the policy and the precedent.
- But the meaning of the term is rooted in that precedent.
- For that the unity of the State is the condition precedent.