prædecessor

A form of predecessor — One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.

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Meanings

nounprædecessor (plural prædecessors)

plural prædecessors

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of predecessor.

    Oure said brother, your prædecessor, paide to him c li. of Scottez money.

    1447, Let. Coldingham, Sur. Soc. 12, page 160
    1 more example

    Mr Thomas Smith your prædecessor has been dead about 16 or 17 years he was never concerned with the Army accounts.

    1716, John Flamsteed, Letter to Mr. Abraham Sharp; letter 1,421 in The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal (CRC Press; →ISBN, 9780750307635) published in 1997 by Eric G Forbes, Murdin Lesley, and Frances Willmoth (editors), page 790
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