precessor
English
Etymology
Noun
precessor (plural precessors)
- (obsolete) A predecessor; one who came before.
- August 30 1651, Bishop Joseph Hall, letter to Thomas Fuller
- Your much devoted friend, precessor, and fellow-labourer, JOS. HALL, B. N. HIGHAM
- August 30 1651, Bishop Joseph Hall, letter to Thomas Fuller
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “precessor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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