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antecessor

noun

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English antecessour, from Anglo-Norman antecessour, Middle French antecesseur, or their etymon Latin antecessor, a compound of ante + cedo + -tor; thus a doublet of ancestor.

  1. derived from antecessor
  2. derived from antecesseur
  3. derived from antecessour
  4. inherited from antecessour

Definitions

  1. A person or thing that precedes or goes before.

    • 1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57, […] the Waldenses[,] Antecessors of the Protestants
    • Yet who says, I have faith in the existence of George II., as his present Majesty’s antecessor and grandfather?
    • This, then, is their horrid counsel and device—that each one of their gods should kill his antecessor.

  2. A person from whom one is descended.

    • […] some, hath iudged wrongfully As in reproche, of our country Deniyng playne, moste noble Brute Our antecessor our stocke and our frute.
    • […] promises made to Abraham, and to other antecessors of the Iewes,
    • At his mother’s knee he had heard of the exploits of her family, which boasted among its antecessors a surgeon on Nelson’s ship at Trafalgar.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA