noun
definition
Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)
verb
definition
To go before, go in front of.
example
Cultural genocide precedes physical genocide.
definition
To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
definition
To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
Examples of precede in a Sentence
An adverb may precede the verb.
A great analysis was to precede a great synthesis, but it was the synthesis on which Comte's vision was centred from the first.
A moral transformation must precede any real advance.
Beautiful sunny autumn days precede a cold and often snowy winter.
Adjectives normally precede the noun they are modifying.
Thus, too, each science rests on the truths of the sciences that precede it, while it adds to them the truths by which it is itself constituted.
This may precede the rash or start at the same time as the rash appears.
A simple yet well thought out hair accessory is sure to make them feel extra special as they precede the bride in traditional ceremonial order.
Episodes of dementia-like symptoms often precede bouts of depression in individuals diagnosed with depression who need medication adjustments.
With epilepsy, convulsions and muscle weakness precede the loss of skin color.
It is also common for the current wife to purchase the corpse bride for her husband, in the event that he should precede her in death.
Some cases of elevated pressure hydrocephalus may be avoided by preventing or treating the infectious diseases that precede them.
The purpose of these contractions is to prepare your uterus and cervix for the work ahead, but they precede true labor contractions.
But marriage is not permitted subsequent to ordination, nor does it any longer usually precede it.
The literary problems of the books of Samuel are those of the writing of the history of the monarchies from different points of view; and the intimate connexion of the books with my those that precede and follow shows that a careful consideration of the internal literary and historical features of these also is necessary.
Assume that the parser doesn't allow anything to precede the verb.
Authors ' initials should precede their names; journal title abbreviations should conform to the style of the American Physical Society.
These relations, tho their contents are largely intangible, precede any legal rights or justification accorded to human beings.
In this case an NAMIDE record should precede the first amino-acid of the cyclic peptide, in the listing in the PDB input file.
In some cases a sexual act would appear to precede spore formation.
And a genitive with prefixed d does not require the governing noun to precede it immediately, as must be the case when the construct is used.
On the theory that the revolt of Absalom chronologically should precede the great wars, a slight correction of the already corrupt text in xvii.
An attempt to recapture the city in 1149 was defeated by the heroism of the women, who were thenceforth empowered by the count to wear the red sash of the Order of La Hacha (The Axe), to import their clothes free of duty, and to precede their bridegrooms at weddings.
It shows the growth of the legend that Graindor regards the vision of the Hermit as responsible for the Crusade, and makes the Crusade led by him precede, and indeed occasion by its failure, the meeting at Clermont (which is dated in May instead of November).
If not, since effect cannot precede cause, cause must precede effect, and there must be an instant when cause is not effective, that is, is not itself.
The 6th cavalry division was ordered to precede the right column and scout towards Rezonville.
In 1778 he was selected chairman of the committee to treat with Lord North's conciliation commissioners, and as such presented the famous report, adopted by a unanimous vote of Congress, which declared that the recognition of independence must precede any negotiations for peace.
On the other hand, the two limbless segments that precede the caudal furca are decidedly non-malacostracan.
Thirty-six proems precede the commentary.
In the beginnings of consciousness instinctive reactions precede definite thoughts, and even in mature life thoughts often follow acts instead of preceding them.
In this case the borrowing of the Greek alphabet must long precede any Phoenician record we possess.
It may, however, precede its noun, and a compared adjective generally does so.
To the west and south-west the general character of the land changes; the ends of the Tertiary beds are raised in small hills and Mesozoic rocks appear, forming broken ridges of the Pre-Cordillera, a name given on the continent to the ridges which precede, to the east, the Andes.
But this theory is repudiated by the best authorities; indeed its extreme precariousness at once becomes evident when it is remembered that, now at least, it is usual for religious fasts to precede rather than to follow sacrificial and funeral feasts, if observed at all in connexion with these.
Driving with long reins in the field should precede the fastening of ropes to the collar, as it accustoms the animal to the pressure on the shoulders of the draught, later to be experienced in the yoke.
Before the disease becomes full-blown, schizophrenics may go through a period called the prodromal stage, lasting about a year, when they experience behavioral changes that precede and are less dramatic than those of the acute stage.
An engagement party may precede a bridal shower, wedding, and housewarming party and it is important to consider the cost implications of so many gift buying occasions.
In some cases, promise rings precede engagement rings if the couple is ready to make a commitment but not quite ready for marriage.
These Earth changes will precede a new era of peace and enlightenment.
When there are more than three cheek-teeth, those which precede the last three have succeeded milk-teeth, and are premolars.
That faith must precede knowledge is reiterated by him.
When only allele symbols are displayed an asterisk should precede them.
Note however that the FZC orbitals must precede the orbitals permitted variable occupancy in the active list.
For example, a more restricted parking permit scheme could precede a phased introduction of parking charges.
Landing at Lyndantse (the modern Reval) in north Esthonia, Valdemar at once received the submission of the inhabitants, but three days later was treacherously attacked in his camp and only saved from utter destruction by his own personal valour and the descent from heaven, at the critical moment, of a red banner with a white cross on it, the Dannebrog (Danes' Cloth), of which we now hear for the first time, and which henceforth was to precede the Danish armies to victory till its capture by the Ditmarshers, three hundred years later.
In 1866 primitive structures were discovered in the island of Therasia by quarrymen extracting pozzolana for the Suez Canal works; and when this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin (Thera), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immedi ately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found and dated by the geologist Fouque, somewhat arbitrarily, to 2000 B.C., by consideration of the superincumbent eruptive stratum.
Thus of the first series of pieces he says that when all exist they may be developed simultaneously, or that the two side-pieces may precede the median, or again that the median may precede the side-pieces - according to the group of birds, but that the second mode is much the commonest.
Rough approximations must always precede accurate measurements; and these returns, while often inaccurate, are better than nothing, and probably improve with each decade.
The proof that the area of a circle is proportional to the square of its diameter would therefore precede the proof that the perimeter is proportional to the diameter; the former property is the easier to grasp, since the conception of the length of a curved line as the limit of the sum of a number of straight lengths presents special difficulties.
After some dispute, he was told that he might climb on to the pilot engine which was to precede the royal train; but his scarlet livery, white gloves and wig suffered so much from soot and sparks that he made no more fuss about his rights in after trips.