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Precation
- - The act of praying; supplication; entreaty.
Precative
- adjective - expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures"
Precatory
- adjective - expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures"
Precedent
- adjective - (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
- preceding in time, order, or significance
Preceding
- verb - be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
- be the predecessor of; "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands"
- come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"
- existing or coming before
- furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"
Precentor
- noun - the musical director of a choir
Preceptor
- noun - teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)
Precessed
- verb - move in a gyrating fashion; "the poles of the Earth precess at a right angle to the force that is applied"
Precesses
- verb - move in a gyrating fashion; "the poles of the Earth precess at a right angle to the force that is applied"