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precedency|prɪˈsiːdənsɪ|
Also 7 -ie, preceed-, erron. presi-.
[f. as prec. and -ency.]
†1. The furnishing of a precedent or setting an example; the being a precedent: = prec. 1 b. Obs.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 4 (1619) 376 Let them be encouraged vnto this holy precedencie and testification of Christianity in euery word, action, and behauiour. 1615T. Adams White Devill 5 Such..shall answere..not only for their owne sins, but for all theirs whom the pattern of their precedency has induced to the like. 1657W. Blois Mod. Policies (ed. 7) E iv, Fælix prædo, mundo exemplum inutile, Happy Piracy is a thing of unhappy presidency; fortunate sins may prove dangerous temptations.
†2. A thing that precedes; an antecedent: = prec. 2. Obs. rare— 1.
1657Fitz-Brian Gd. Old Cause in Prim. Lustre (1659) 6 It was an inlet, and a necessary precedency to their great mutations that were to follow.
3. Priority in time or succession: = prec. 3.
1622Peacham Compl. Gent. xii. (1634) 106 The other two may justly claime precedency of Coines, seeing they are the ingredient simples that compound them. 1641Milton Reform. i. Wks. 1851 III. 5 The Precedencie which God gave this Iland to be the first Restorer of buried Truth. 1706Estcourt Fair Examp. iv. i. 47 He has lov'd me long, long before you knew me, and claims a Privilege from Precedency. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 83/2 Numa seems to have taken away the precedency from March,..to show his preference of the political virtues to the martial.
4. Superiority in rank or estimation: = prec. 4.
1612North's Plutarch 750 You looke here, Reader, to see to which of the two I shold giue the precedencie. a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 90 He speakes most of the precedency of age. 1682Norris Hierocles Introd., The Pythagorick Verses deservedly call'd Golden, may justly claim the precedency. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 81 ⁋1 The precedency or superior excellence of one virtue to another. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. II. xii. 26 They had surrendered their ancient claim to precedency among the Gaulish states.
b. spec. Ceremonial priority or order: = prec. 4 b.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. ii. i, One, in whom the humours and elements are peaceably met, without emulation of precedency. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry iv. ii. 37 A controversie of precedency between the younger sons of Viscounts and Barons, and the Baronets. 1711Addison Spect. No. 119 ⁋3 There is infinitely more to do about Place and Precedency in a Meeting of Justices Wives, than in an Assembly of Dutchesses. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. vi. 43 Bills for granting honours or precedency. |