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antecessor|ˌæntɪˈsɛsə(r), ˈæntɪ-|
Forms: 5–7 -cessour, 5 -owr, 5–6 -ur, -sessour, 7 -cesser, 6– antecessor.
[a. MFr. antécesseur, a refashioning of earlier ancesseur ancestor, after L. antecēssōr-em in its L. senses of ‘predecessor in office,’ and ‘professor of law’: see ancestor n.]
1. One who goes before (esp. in office); a predecessor. (The latter word is more common.)
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. ix. 155 Hys Priwalagis..Ðat before hys Antecessowrys gat. 1494Fabyan vi. clxi. 154 He shulde folowe the stablenes of his antesessours..and ponysshe mysdoers. 1502Arnold Chron. 213 Our antecessurs and successours. 1636Prynne Unbish. Tim. & Tit. (1661) 78 Before that he went up to the Apostles his Antecessors. 1789Smyth tr. Aldrich's Archit. (1818) 54 The custom of all his antecessors in that profession. 1869Gladstone Juv. Mundi viii. §1. 222 This deity [Zeus] has ancestors and antecessors.
†b. An ancestor, a progenitor (usually however when viewed as a predecessor). Obs.
c1470Henry Wallace i. 1 Our antecessowris, that we suld of reide..We lat ourslide. 1474Caxton Chesse 53 Of his grauntsirs fader and of alle his antecessours. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. ccxxxvii. 736 Our fathers and Antecessours of olde tyme. a1657Sir J. Balfour Ann. Scotl. (1824) II. 223 Solemley interrid amongest his antecessers. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 210 The Kings noble Progenitors and Antecessors of the Nobles of this Realm.
†c. A predecessor in the possession of property.
1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 16 b, Writ of assise of the death of hys antecessoure at the common lawe. [1628Coke On Litt. 78 b, In Law..Antecessor is applyed to a natural person..but Prædecessor is applyed to a body Politique or Corporate. 1809Bawdwen Domesd. Bk. 624 Robert claims the land of Outi..to be in the soke of his Antecessor Lepi.]
†2. A professor of civil law. Obs.
1751Chambers Cycl., Antecessor..is particularly used in some universities for a public professor, who teaches or lectures the civil law.
†3. pl. One of the advanced guard of an army. Obs.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Antecessors, in the antient art of war..a party of horse dispatched before the agmen or body of an army..also denominated Antecursores. |