Meanings
adjectiveprecedaneous (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoletepreceding; antecedent; previous
The necessity of this performance to any undertaking may appear by those several precedaneous methods in common life , which have nothing in themselves to ingratiate them unto us
a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon
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