Word.ws English Dictionary

precelling

precelling is the present participle and gerund of precel.

Meaning of precel

Verb

precel (third-person singular simple present precels, present participle precelling, simple past and past participle precelled)

  1. (obsolete) To surpass; to excel; to exceed.
    • […]attempted a Princely Graffe, which as farre precels her, which hee hath lighted upon[…]1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC

Questions about precelling

What is precelling the present participle and gerund of?
Precelling is the present participle and gerund of precel.

Words near precelling in the dictionary

  1. precell
  2. precelled
  3. precellence
  4. precellency
  5. precellent
  6. precelling
  7. precells
  8. precellular
  9. precellularization
  10. precels
  11. precenozoic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: precelling (page history and authors); precel (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “precelling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/precelling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.