Meanings
nounpræcursor (plural præcursors)
plural præcursors
- obsoleteObsolete form of precursor.
1 more example
In an age leſs ripe for reformation, the præcurſor of Zuinglius was heard with applauſe : a brace and ſimple people imbibed and long retained the colour of his opinion; and his art, or merit, ſeduced the biſhop of Conſtance, and even the pope’s legate, who forgot, for his ſake, the intereſt of their maſter and their order.
1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIX, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume XII, pages 243–244
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