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præcede

præcede is the obsolete spelling of precede.

Meaning of precede

Verb

precede (third-person singular simple present precedes, present participle preceding, simple past and past participle preceded)

  1. (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
    • Cultural genocide precedes physical genocide.
    Synonyms:
    forego
  2. (transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
    • It has been usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration communicated to the enemy.1832, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1, page 52
  3. (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).

See all 4 meanings of precede

Forms of præcede

third-person singular presentpræcedes
present participlepræceding
past participlepræceded
pastpræceded

Questions about præcede

What is præcede the obsolete spelling of?
Præcede is the obsolete spelling of precede.

Words near præcede in the dictionary

  1. præambles
  2. præantepenultima
  3. præantepenultimas
  4. præcaval
  5. præcavals
  6. præcede
  7. præceded
  8. præcedent
  9. præcedents
  10. præcedes
  11. præceding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præcede (page history and authors); precede (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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