These are the meanings of the letters PROPRECEDENT when you unscramble them.
- Precedent (a.)
Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services.
- Precedent (n.)
A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases.
- Precedent (n.)
A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign.
- Precedent (n.)
A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
- Precedent (n.)
Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.
- precented (unknown)
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- Precentor (n.)
A leader of a choir; a directing singer.
- Precentor (n.)
The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir.
- Precentor (n.)
The leader of the congregational singing in Scottish and other churches.
- Preceptor (n.)
One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.
- Preceptor (n.)
The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars.
- Pretender (n.)
One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant.
- Pretender (n.)
One who pretends, simulates, or feigns.
- Pretender (n.)
The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law.
- Proceeder (n.)
One who proceeds.
- Retrocede (v. i.)
To go back.
- Retrocede (v. t.)
To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.