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precedented

adj

Etymology

c. 1650 precedent + -ed, possibly a back-formation from unprecedented.

  1. derived from praecēdēns
  2. suffixed as precedented — “precedent + ed”

Definitions

  1. Having a precedent

    Having a precedent; not novel

    • We have a right to take any method that is legal and is precedented.

  2. simple past and past participle of precedent

    • "Is 'precedented' even a word?" you may ask. Well, it is now, Noah-fucking-Webster. I just precedented it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for precedented. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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