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adj. Existing or coming before another or others in time, place, rank, or sequence; previous.

adj. Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.

v. Present participle of precede.

adj. Going before; -- opposed to following.

adj. In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2.

adj. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office

adj. existing or coming before

"The recognition of Conversion, in fact, requires us to admit that, formally, in a logical proposition, the term preceding the copula is subject and the one following is predicate."

outgoing    old    prefatory    previous    preparative    precedent    propaedeutic    foregoing    introductory    above-named   

following    successive    succeeding   

introductory    superior    paste   

following   

precedent    foregoing    antecedent    precursory    prodromal    prior    prodromic    lash   

precede   

Reading    acceding    bleeding    breeding    ceding    conceding    exceeding    feeding    heeding    impeding   

following    given    shut    star    reads    uber    river    blogpost    end    has