Meanings
verbpræcede (third-person singular simple present præcedes, present participle præceding, simple past and past participle præceded)
present singular third person præcedes · participle present præceding · participle past præceded · past præceded
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of precede.
[The Queen] commaunded [Jonson] to think on some Daunce, or shew, that might præcede hers, and haue the place of a foyle, or false-Masque.
1609, a work quoted in 1980 by Mary Chan in Music in the Theatre of Ben Jonson (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0‒19‒812632‒8, 978‒0‒19‒812632‒4), page 190
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