Word Finder - predecessor

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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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A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.

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A vertex having a directed path to another vertex

Your predecessor wasn't known for his sense of strategy.

You can thank my predecessor for that one.

This is a game your predecessor played very well.

His predecessor had seemed much stronger.

Gabriel didn't say what he wanted, that if his predecessor knew he needed something, she'd probably torched it before she left.

His predecessor, Zamon, knew he was about to be defeated.

Deities did things differently, but he wasn't about to do what his predecessor would have and demand a favor of someone like Andre.

No one ever spoke to his predecessor that way.

He'd never entered into a private one before and didn't know if his predecessor had either.

He'd obeyed the Code and his predecessor without question, until forced to choose between them and his conscience.

He'd always known the source of Death's magic was the souls, but he'd never seen his predecessor wield the light of the souls.

You seek to betray me as your predecessor did.

It may be regarded as, in various important respects, the lineal predecessor of the American Whig and Republican parties.

His predecessor lulled people into trusting him with charisma and magic.

He'd hoped to be granted the same level of power as his predecessor.

No, his predecessor wasn't going to win this round.

Dr Ginsburg had one predecessor in the field, the learned Jacob ben Chajim, who in 1524-1525 published the second Rabbinic Bible, containing what has ever since been known as the Massorah; but neither were the materials available nor was criticism sufficiently advanced for a complete edition.

In marked contrast to his predecessor, he left administrative responsibility to the members of his Cabinet.

He also renewed the claim which had been made by his predecessor, Adolf, on Thuringia, and interfered in a quarrel over the succession to the Hungarian throne.

The naming of seven members of prominent Roman families, however, reversed the wise policy of his predecessor which had kept the dangerous factions of the city out of the curia.

The first of the series (which appears to have no predecessor) single-lobed; the other four composed of two lobes, each subtriangular in section.

Till middle life he was also lieutenant-general in Aragon for his brother and predecessor Alphonso V., whose reign was mainly spent in Italy.

His predecessor in the kingdom, Lothar, had left a young and beautiful widow, Adelheid.

The elections of March 1909 returned a chamber very slightly different from its predecessor.

Moreover, every Norman to whom he granted lands and offices held them by English law in a much truer sense than the king held his; he was deemed to step into the exact position of his English predecessor, whatever that might be.

He could not, of course, undo the great reforms of his predecessor, but he amended them in such a way as to counteract what he considered the exaggerations of liberalism.

But her day of triumph was destined to be even shorter than that of her predecessor.

To supply money for his many undertakings Clement revived the practice of selling reservations and expectancies, which had been abolished by his predecessor.

A further motive for their attitude was that Francis Joseph, unlike his predecessor, had not taken the oath to observe the Hungarian constitution, which it was the avowed object of Schwarzenberg to overthrow.

What book Ezra really brought from Babylon is uncertain; the writer, it seems, is merely narrating the introduction of the Law ascribed to Moses, even as a predecessor has recounted the discovery of the Book of the Law, the Deuteronomic code subsequently included in the Pentateuch.

To the brilliant court of Marienburg, not only a school of chivalry, but under Winrich's predecessor Luther of Brunswick, a literary centre,(fn3) men came from all over Europe to win their spurs.

His first plan was to continue the work, already initiated by his predecessor Tourny, of making a fresh survey of the land (cadastre), in order to arrive at a juster assessment of the taille; he also obtained a large reduction in the contribution of the province.

Origen thus solved, after his own fashion, a problem which his predecessor Clement had not even ventured to grapple with.

Beorhtric, the immediate predecessor of Ecgbert, was buried here.

The second volume came out in 1805, and a third was issued in1837-1838long after the death of its predecessor's author, by Bourjot St-Hilaire.

Brandt now retained very nearly the same arrangement as his predecessor; but, notwithstanding that he could trust to the firmer foundation of internal framework, he took at least two retrograde steps.

President Harding avoided the example set by his predecessor, and did not himself participate as a delegate.

Theobald was followed (1240-1241) by Richard of Cornwall, the brother of Henry III., who, like his predecessor, had to sail in the teeth of papal prohibitions; but neither of the two achieved any permanent result, except the fortification of Ascalon.

As minister he carried through an important judicial reform which had been prepared by his predecessor, but had to retire from office because he was opposed to the reactionary measures for restoring the influence and privileges of the nobility.

Frazer maintains the hitherto current theory that the earlier temple of Athena and Erechtheus was on the site of the Erechtheum; that the Erechtheum inherited the name apXa ios veclis from its predecessor, and that the " opisthodomos " in which the treasures were kept was the west chamber of the Parthenon; Furtwangler and Milchh6fer hold the strange view that the " opisthodomos " was a separate building at the east end of the Acropolis, while Penrose thinks the building discovered by Dorpfeld was possibly the Cecropeum.

Euric's code remained in force among the Visigoths of Spain until the reign of Leovigild (568-586), who made a new one, improving upon that of his predecessor.

Up to the year 1139 he follows closely the history written by his predecessor, Prior Richard; thenceforward he is an independent though not a very valuable authority.

Under him or his predecessor Armenia was divided between the Roman and the Persian empire.

Other encyclicals, such as those on Christian marriage (Arcanum divinae sapientiae, 10th February 1880), on the Rosary (Supremi apostolatus oficii, 1st September 1883, and Superiore anno, 5th September 1898), and on Freemasonry (Humanism genus, 20th April 1884), dealt with subjects on which his predecessor had been accustomed to pronounce allocutions, and were on similar lines.

This period might no doubt be reduced to 480 years by the supposition, in itself not improbable, that some of the judges were local and contemporaneous; the suggestion has also been made that, as is usual in Oriental chronologies, the years of foreign domination were not counted, the beginning of each judge's rule being reckoned, not from the victory which brought him into power, but from the death of his predecessor; we should in this case obtain for the period from the Exodus to the foundation of the Temple 440+x+y years,' which if 30 years be assigned con 1 Petrie, Hist.

It was clear that he could not continue the repressive tactics of his predecessor.

He came to the throne at the age of eight, after the murder of his predecessor Amon.

Arequipa is the seat of a bishopric created in 1609-1612, and possesses a comparatively modern cathedral, its predecessor having been destroyed by fire in 1849.

For 2r is not a predecessor of some member of the class.

The death of Louis in 1392, the regency of his widow Elizabeth, and a fresh outbreak in Croatia, enabled Tvrtko to fulfil his predecessor's designs by establishing a maritime state.