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predecessory

predecessory adjective: being or pertaining to a predecessor.

Adjective

predecessory

  1. Being or pertaining to a predecessor.
    • Applicant is successor to the Seaboard & Roanoke, through merger and consolidation, and through agreement has assumed obligations of the predecessory company.1927, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, page 876
    • Writing is filled with predecessory texts, learned and vernacular, wise and foolish, and the process of rhetorical education is largely a process of ...1999, Arthur F. Kinney, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN

Origin of predecessory

From predecessor + -y.

Questions about predecessory

What does predecessory mean?
Predecessory means being or pertaining to a predecessor.
What part of speech is predecessory?
Predecessory is an adjective.

Words near predecessory in the dictionary

  1. predecessoress
  2. predecessoresses
  3. predecessorial
  4. predecessors
  5. predecessorship
  6. predecessory
  7. predecessour
  8. predecessours
  9. predecide
  10. predecided
  11. predecides

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