predecessorn.

Brit.

/ˈpriːdᵻsɛsə/, U.S.

/ˈprɛdəˌsɛsər/,

/ˈpridəˌsɛsər/

Forms: Middle English predecessur, Middle English predescessour, Middle English predessessour, Middle English predessouris (plural, transmission error), Middle English predissessour, Middle English predycessour, Middle English 1600s praedecessor, Middle English–1500s predecessoure, Middle English–1500s predicessour, Middle English–1600s predecessour, Middle English– predecessor, 1500s predycessor, 1500s predycessoure, 1600s predecesser, 1600s predicessoure; Scottish pre-1700 praedecessor, pre-1700 praedecessour, pre-1700 predacessowre, pre-1700 predecessare, pre-1700 predecessore, pre-1700 predecessour, pre-1700 predecessoure, pre-1700 predescessour, pre-1700 predessessour, pre-1700 predessessur, pre-1700 predicessor, pre-1700 predicessour, pre-1700 predicessur, pre-1700 predicissor, pre-1700 predisesor, pre-1700 predissessvr, pre-1700 pridicessour, pre-1700 1700s– predecessor. N.E.D.(1907) also records a form of the ending Middle English -ar.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French predecessur, predecesseur; Latin praedecessor.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman predecessur, predecesser, predecessere, predecessor, predecessour, pridecesser and Anglo-Norman and Middle French predecesseur (1281 in Old French; French prédécesseur ) former holder of an office or position, regarded in relation to a later holder (1281), forebear (1283), person who has previously worked in the same field or on the same task (a1372) and its etymon post-classical Latin praedecessor former holder of an office (5th cent.) < classical Latin prae- pre- prefix + dēcessor (see decessor n.). Compare also post-classical Latin praecessor precessor n. and classical Latin antecessor antecessor n.In post-classical Latin a parallel formation prodecessor is also attested (4th cent.; < classical Latin pro- pro- prefix¹ + dēcessor : see decessor n.), which is reflected by Anglo-Norman prodecessour and Middle English prodessessour (each apparently only in one isolated attestation).

a. A person who comes before another person in time; an ancestor, a forefather, a forebear.Not always distinguishable from sense 2 when used in relation to hereditary titles and offices.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun]

elder-fathereOE

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alderOE

eldfatherOE

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grandsirec1300

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antecessorc1400

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tupuna1845

society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > one who guides or leads

way-witterc1275

leadera1300

lodesmanc1300

predecessora1325

guide1362

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conduct1423

way-leaderc1450

guiderc1475

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leadsmanc1510

janissary1565

Palinurus1567

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convoy1581

mercury1592

pilota1635

accompanier1753

runner1867

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > [noun] > precedence > one who takes precedence

predecessora1325

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 28 For manie of his [sc. King Edward I's] reaume suffreden desheritement þoru þat in manie cas þer remedeie sulde habbe ben idon þoru his predecessurs ant nas noȝt.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 31 (MED) Kyng Bledgaret passede alle his predecessoures [L. praedecessores] in musik.

c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 56 Þe kyngis citee þe wich her predecessours and þe Chaldeys of olde tyme had byseged and destruyed.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 199 (MED) Somme women haue childer like to theyme, somme like to the fader, and somme like to theire predecessores [L. antiquioribus] afore tyme.

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 100 (MED) Swylk er customyd to be wel spekyng, wel taght, curteys, and good storyers, knowyng of þy predycessours.

1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Ded. sig. aaij^v We may perceue such magnanimitie to haue ben in our predicessours.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 248 You clayme some certaine Townes in France, From your predecessor king Edward the third.

a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 51 He..follows his Predecessors pattern to the life.

1667 A. Cowley To Royal Soc. v, in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. sig. B2 All long Errors of the Way, In which our wandring Prædecessors went.

1734 A. Young Hist. Diss. on Idolatrous Corruptions in Relig. I. vi. 316 So far were our Predecessors..from..refusing Oblations from Strangers,..that they were..a part of their Worship.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 419 To read engraven on the mouldy walls [of the Bastille], In stagg'ring types, his predecessor's tale.

1837 Amer. Monthly Mag. July 54 Strangers, whose predecessors had failed, or emigrated to the West, or removed merely to the other end of the village.

1886 Peterson's Mag. Mar. 246/1 Mrs. Sam Stoughton finding the front parlor, called by her predecessors the ‘fore-room’ or ‘square-room’, none too magnificent for her daily use.

1912 H. Footner New Rivers of N. 192 We guessed that we were on the spot where our last white predecessors had made camp.

1968 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Aug. 65/1 In addition to harvesting the game animals their predecessors had pursued, the Thule Eskimos developed a daring speciality.

1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) vi. 94 The enormous advance of the brain of Homo sapiens over that of his predecessors.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 July 16/1 The contemplation of street markets, cranes and tenements serves the modern visitor much as the ruins of classical antiquity did his eighteenth-century predecessor.

b. A thing that has been followed or replaced by another.

ΚΠ

1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia ii. 277 Each minute crowded on so fast, and seemed to tread on its predecessors heels.

1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 22 To-day is Yesterday return'd;..Let it not share its Predecessor's Fate.

1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury Let. xiii. 183 Envy, and vanity, and wounded pride..would..infuse their venom into some other word, and set it up as a new tyrant, to hover, like its predecessor, over the birth of infant genius.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxix. 248 This is the first clear day..Compared with the gloomy haziness of its predecessors, it was cheering.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June Suppl. This Supplement..will be republished together with its predecessor.

1937 Times 11 Dec. 4/7 The engine is, in my opinion, more responsive and sweet than its predecessor.

1988 Classical Rev. 38 417 The generic identity of a work can only be ascertained with reference to its predecessors.

2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. Tech. 385/4 The sphygmograph, the predecessor of the sphygmometer used to measure blood pressure today.

2. A former holder of a position, office, title, etc., regarded in relation to a later holder. In singular frequently: spec. the immediately preceding holder of a given position, office, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > one who goes first or predecessor

ancestorc1300

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predecessora1387

oldersc1450

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forn-goer1483

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Adam1553

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decessor1647

first-comer1690

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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 87 (MED) Anchus his sones, þat was his predecessor [L. praedecessoris], slouȝ hym.

Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 126 (MED) Oure predecessouris, Pope Nicol and Pope Gregori, demeden cristen men to abstene hem fro masses of prestis which it was known verely to be such vicious men.

1439 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 170 (MED) The seid besechers hath diuers ordenaunces graunted vnto ham longe tyme passed be youre worthi predecessours.

c1480 (a1400) St. Eugenia 416 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 136 Þe emperoure Oto, þat wes predecessoure of þe gud emperoure henry.

1509 S. Hawes Joyfull Medit. The ryght eloquent poete and monke of bery..Presentynge his bookes, gretely prouffytable To your worthy predecessour the .v. kynge Henry.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccvij^v My prodecessours, Byshoppes of Rome.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xviii. 220/1 Antoninus..did not onely equall his Adopter and Predecessours, in wisdome and other princely qualities.

1670 Minutes Hudson's Bay Co. (1942) 135 The last Governour being his Predecessor.

1681 in A. Hunter-Weston Some Papers of Hunters of Hunterstoun (1925) 66 Cleir evidences..of the said marches as they had sein them..condeshendit upon be our predisesors.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §49. 620 He delivered over the Office to his Successor, as he had received it from his Predecessor.

1768 T. Gray Let. 8 Nov. in Corr. (1971) III. 1051 Next day Hinchliffe made his speech, & said not one word (tho' it is usual) of his predecessor.

1844 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. I. 90 Eadmer's immediate predecessor in the see of St. Andrews was Turgot.

1892 Dict. National Biogr. XXXI. 91/2 He..continued the practice of his predecessor of giving courses of non-professional lectures on anatomy and physiology.

1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood i. 19 David inquired about his predecessor, whom he remembered dimly from his boyhood.

1954 R. Sutcliff Eagle of Ninth i. 10 My predecessor had a certain amount of trouble just before I took over.

2004 Guardian 19 Jan. i. 12/3 The Pope has beatified no less than 1,315 contenders for sainthood, vastly more than any of his predecessors.

†3. A person who goes before as a leader or guide. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 3544 (MED) Þou shalt first be my predecessour And gon a-forn, depe doun in to helle.

?c1450 (?a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 393 (MED) Oure bischopis and oure predecessouris..dempten þat who so euer take mynystres of þe chirche fro spiritualle office to seculere, þat þer be noone offrynge done for hym.

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 143 (MED) He [sc. Jesus] shal be our helpe, þat is our leder & oure predecessour.

1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xcvii. §955 If they [sc. Christians] knew their own priviledges, and composed themselvs according to the pattern of their Predecessor.

†4. A person who takes precedence over others. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1723 (MED) Darius..Predicessour of princes & peree to þe sonn.

5. Mathematics. The term, or each of the terms, immediately prior to another in a series or sequence (and from which the latter term may be derived).

ΚΠ

1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 16 The numbers in the first column form an arithmetical series,..those in the second an increasing geometrical series, each being the double of its predecessor.

1879 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 2 393 The dominant of the quantities x, y, and z which satisfy x³ + y³ +z³ = 0 is continually replaced by another similar dominant less than the cube root of its predecessor, which is impossible.

1989 W. Gellert et al. VNR Conc. Encycl. Math. (ed. 2) i. 20 Every natural number other than 0 has exactly one immediate predecessor.

1996 J. H. Conway & R. K. Guy Bk. Numbers iii. 87 Figure 3.21 shows that 0, 1, 5, 19, 65, 211, 665 is part of a bootstrapping sequence in which each term is the sum of fixed multiples of its two predecessors.

Compounds

General attributive and appositive.

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1683 J. Wilson in Cloud of Witnesses (1810) 216 That which their great doctor had yielded and their predecessor council had approven.

1695 J. Sage Princ. Cyprianic Age 64 The like had never been attempted before by Presbyters, under any of his Predecessor-Bishops.

1723 Duke of Wharton True Briton No. 57. ¶14 This French Author celebrates his Predecessor-Countrymen.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. v. 236 ‘The old Castle of the Schellenbergs’ (extinct predecessor Line).

1933 E. H. Sturtevant Compar. Gram. Hittite Lang. i. 29 Our use of the biblical name Hittite leaves the ancient stem free for use in its original sense; we shall call the predecessor language Hattic.

2000 R. G. Teitel Transitional Justice i. 14 Given the predecessor regime's immorality, the rule of law needs to be grounded in something beyond adherence to preexisting law.

Derivatives

predecessoˈress n. rare a female predecessor.

ΚΠ

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 657 They will find no obstruction from the melodious pages of their predecessoresses.

ˈpredecessorship n. rare the position or office of a predecessor.

ΚΠ

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Decession A predecessorship, decessio.

1993 Harvard Stud. in Classical Philol. 95 189 The third of the above-mentioned claimants for the ‘real’ predecessorship of Menander, Anaxandrides, comes into play.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	predecessor
释义	predecessorn. Brit. /ˈpriːdᵻsɛsə/, U.S. /ˈprɛdəˌsɛsər/, /ˈpridəˌsɛsər/ Forms: Middle English predecessur, Middle English predescessour, Middle English predessessour, Middle English predessouris (plural, transmission error), Middle English predissessour, Middle English predycessour, Middle English 1600s praedecessor, Middle English–1500s predecessoure, Middle English–1500s predicessour, Middle English–1600s predecessour, Middle English– predecessor, 1500s predycessor, 1500s predycessoure, 1600s predecesser, 1600s predicessoure; Scottish pre-1700 praedecessor, pre-1700 praedecessour, pre-1700 predacessowre, pre-1700 predecessare, pre-1700 predecessore, pre-1700 predecessour, pre-1700 predecessoure, pre-1700 predescessour, pre-1700 predessessour, pre-1700 predessessur, pre-1700 predicessor, pre-1700 predicessour, pre-1700 predicessur, pre-1700 predicissor, pre-1700 predisesor, pre-1700 predissessvr, pre-1700 pridicessour, pre-1700 1700s– predecessor. N.E.D.(1907) also records a form of the ending Middle English -ar. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French predecessur, predecesseur; Latin praedecessor. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman predecessur, predecesser, predecessere, predecessor, predecessour, pridecesser and Anglo-Norman and Middle French predecesseur (1281 in Old French; French prédécesseur ) former holder of an office or position, regarded in relation to a later holder (1281), forebear (1283), person who has previously worked in the same field or on the same task (a1372) and its etymon post-classical Latin praedecessor former holder of an office (5th cent.) < classical Latin prae- pre- prefix + dēcessor (see decessor n.). Compare also post-classical Latin praecessor precessor n. and classical Latin antecessor antecessor n.In post-classical Latin a parallel formation prodecessor is also attested (4th cent.; < classical Latin pro- pro- prefix¹ + dēcessor : see decessor n.), which is reflected by Anglo-Norman prodecessour and Middle English prodessessour (each apparently only in one isolated attestation). 1. a. A person who comes before another person in time; an ancestor, a forefather, a forebear.Not always distinguishable from sense 2 when used in relation to hereditary titles and offices. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] elder-fathereOE fatherOE elder971 alderOE eldfatherOE forme-fadera1200 ancestorc1300 grandsirec1300 aiela1325 belsirea1325 predecessora1325 forefather1377 morea1382 progenitorc1384 antecessorc1400 forn-fatherc1460 forebear1488 ancient1540 antecestrec1550 fore-grandsirec1550 grandfather1575 ascendant1604 forerunnera1616 ancienter1654 tupuna1845 society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > one who guides or leads way-witterc1275 leadera1300 lodesmanc1300 predecessora1325 guide1362 duistre1393 conduct1423 way-leaderc1450 guiderc1475 conductor1481 leadsmanc1510 janissary1565 Palinurus1567 forerunner1576 convoy1581 mercury1592 pilota1635 accompanier1753 runner1867 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > [noun] > precedence > one who takes precedence predecessora1325 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 28 For manie of his [sc. King Edward I's] reaume suffreden desheritement þoru þat in manie cas þer remedeie sulde habbe ben idon þoru his predecessurs ant nas noȝt. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 31 (MED) Kyng Bledgaret passede alle his predecessoures [L. praedecessores] in musik. c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 56 Þe kyngis citee þe wich her predecessours and þe Chaldeys of olde tyme had byseged and destruyed. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 199 (MED) Somme women haue childer like to theyme, somme like to the fader, and somme like to theire predecessores [L. antiquioribus] afore tyme. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 100 (MED) Swylk er customyd to be wel spekyng, wel taght, curteys, and good storyers, knowyng of þy predycessours. 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Ded. sig. aaij^v We may perceue such magnanimitie to haue ben in our predicessours. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 248 You clayme some certaine Townes in France, From your predecessor king Edward the third. a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 51 He..follows his Predecessors pattern to the life. 1667 A. Cowley To Royal Soc. v, in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. sig. B2 All long Errors of the Way, In which our wandring Prædecessors went. 1734 A. Young Hist. Diss. on Idolatrous Corruptions in Relig. I. vi. 316 So far were our Predecessors..from..refusing Oblations from Strangers,..that they were..a part of their Worship. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 419 To read engraven on the mouldy walls [of the Bastille], In stagg'ring types, his predecessor's tale. 1837 Amer. Monthly Mag. July 54 Strangers, whose predecessors had failed, or emigrated to the West, or removed merely to the other end of the village. 1886 Peterson's Mag. Mar. 246/1 Mrs. Sam Stoughton finding the front parlor, called by her predecessors the ‘fore-room’ or ‘square-room’, none too magnificent for her daily use. 1912 H. Footner New Rivers of N. 192 We guessed that we were on the spot where our last white predecessors had made camp. 1968 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Aug. 65/1 In addition to harvesting the game animals their predecessors had pursued, the Thule Eskimos developed a daring speciality. 1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) vi. 94 The enormous advance of the brain of Homo sapiens over that of his predecessors. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 July 16/1 The contemplation of street markets, cranes and tenements serves the modern visitor much as the ruins of classical antiquity did his eighteenth-century predecessor. b. A thing that has been followed or replaced by another. ΚΠ 1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia ii. 277 Each minute crowded on so fast, and seemed to tread on its predecessors heels. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 22 To-day is Yesterday return'd;..Let it not share its Predecessor's Fate. 1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury Let. xiii. 183 Envy, and vanity, and wounded pride..would..infuse their venom into some other word, and set it up as a new tyrant, to hover, like its predecessor, over the birth of infant genius. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxix. 248 This is the first clear day..Compared with the gloomy haziness of its predecessors, it was cheering. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June Suppl. This Supplement..will be republished together with its predecessor. 1937 Times 11 Dec. 4/7 The engine is, in my opinion, more responsive and sweet than its predecessor. 1988 Classical Rev. 38 417 The generic identity of a work can only be ascertained with reference to its predecessors. 2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. Tech. 385/4 The sphygmograph, the predecessor of the sphygmometer used to measure blood pressure today. 2. A former holder of a position, office, title, etc., regarded in relation to a later holder. In singular frequently: spec. the immediately preceding holder of a given position, office, etc. 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 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 87 (MED) Anchus his sones, þat was his predecessor [L. praedecessoris], slouȝ hym. Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 126 (MED) Oure predecessouris, Pope Nicol and Pope Gregori, demeden cristen men to abstene hem fro masses of prestis which it was known verely to be such vicious men. 1439 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 170 (MED) The seid besechers hath diuers ordenaunces graunted vnto ham longe tyme passed be youre worthi predecessours. c1480 (a1400) St. Eugenia 416 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 136 Þe emperoure Oto, þat wes predecessoure of þe gud emperoure henry. 1509 S. Hawes Joyfull Medit. The ryght eloquent poete and monke of bery..Presentynge his bookes, gretely prouffytable To your worthy predecessour the .v. kynge Henry. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccvij^v My prodecessours, Byshoppes of Rome. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xviii. 220/1 Antoninus..did not onely equall his Adopter and Predecessours, in wisdome and other princely qualities. 1670 Minutes Hudson's Bay Co. (1942) 135 The last Governour being his Predecessor. 1681 in A. Hunter-Weston Some Papers of Hunters of Hunterstoun (1925) 66 Cleir evidences..of the said marches as they had sein them..condeshendit upon be our predisesors. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §49. 620 He delivered over the Office to his Successor, as he had received it from his Predecessor. 1768 T. Gray Let. 8 Nov. in Corr. (1971) III. 1051 Next day Hinchliffe made his speech, & said not one word (tho' it is usual) of his predecessor. 1844 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. I. 90 Eadmer's immediate predecessor in the see of St. Andrews was Turgot. 1892 Dict. National Biogr. XXXI. 91/2 He..continued the practice of his predecessor of giving courses of non-professional lectures on anatomy and physiology. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood i. 19 David inquired about his predecessor, whom he remembered dimly from his boyhood. 1954 R. Sutcliff Eagle of Ninth i. 10 My predecessor had a certain amount of trouble just before I took over. 2004 Guardian 19 Jan. i. 12/3 The Pope has beatified no less than 1,315 contenders for sainthood, vastly more than any of his predecessors. †3. A person who goes before as a leader or guide. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 3544 (MED) Þou shalt first be my predecessour And gon a-forn, depe doun in to helle. ?c1450 (?a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 393 (MED) Oure bischopis and oure predecessouris..dempten þat who so euer take mynystres of þe chirche fro spiritualle office to seculere, þat þer be noone offrynge done for hym. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 143 (MED) He [sc. Jesus] shal be our helpe, þat is our leder & oure predecessour. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xcvii. §955 If they [sc. Christians] knew their own priviledges, and composed themselvs according to the pattern of their Predecessor. †4. A person who takes precedence over others. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1723 (MED) Darius..Predicessour of princes & peree to þe sonn. 5. Mathematics. The term, or each of the terms, immediately prior to another in a series or sequence (and from which the latter term may be derived). ΚΠ 1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 16 The numbers in the first column form an arithmetical series,..those in the second an increasing geometrical series, each being the double of its predecessor. 1879 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 2 393 The dominant of the quantities x, y, and z which satisfy x³ + y³ +z³ = 0 is continually replaced by another similar dominant less than the cube root of its predecessor, which is impossible. 1989 W. Gellert et al. VNR Conc. Encycl. Math. (ed. 2) i. 20 Every natural number other than 0 has exactly one immediate predecessor. 1996 J. H. Conway & R. K. Guy Bk. Numbers iii. 87 Figure 3.21 shows that 0, 1, 5, 19, 65, 211, 665 is part of a bootstrapping sequence in which each term is the sum of fixed multiples of its two predecessors. Compounds General attributive and appositive. ΚΠ 1683 J. Wilson in Cloud of Witnesses (1810) 216 That which their great doctor had yielded and their predecessor council had approven. 1695 J. Sage Princ. Cyprianic Age 64 The like had never been attempted before by Presbyters, under any of his Predecessor-Bishops. 1723 Duke of Wharton True Briton No. 57. ¶14 This French Author celebrates his Predecessor-Countrymen. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. v. 236 ‘The old Castle of the Schellenbergs’ (extinct predecessor Line). 1933 E. H. Sturtevant Compar. Gram. Hittite Lang. i. 29 Our use of the biblical name Hittite leaves the ancient stem free for use in its original sense; we shall call the predecessor language Hattic. 2000 R. G. Teitel Transitional Justice i. 14 Given the predecessor regime's immorality, the rule of law needs to be grounded in something beyond adherence to preexisting law. Derivatives predecessoˈress n. rare a female predecessor. ΚΠ 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 657 They will find no obstruction from the melodious pages of their predecessoresses. ˈpredecessorship n. rare the position or office of a predecessor. ΚΠ 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Decession A predecessorship, decessio. 1993 Harvard Stud. in Classical Philol. 95 189 The third of the above-mentioned claimants for the ‘real’ predecessorship of Menander, Anaxandrides, comes into play. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1325
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