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Precedents
- noun - (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
- a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
- a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States"
- an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
Precentors
- noun - the musical director of a choir
Preceptive
- - Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.
Preceptors
- noun - teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)
Precessing
- verb - move in a gyrating fashion; "the poles of the Earth precess at a right angle to the force that is applied"
Precession
- noun - the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
- the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone