Crossword clues for predecessor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predecessor \Pred`e*ces"sor\ (?; 277), n. [L. praedecessor; prae before + decessor one who withdraws from the province he has governed, a retiring officer (with reference to his successor), a predecessor, fr. decedere: cf. F. pr['e]d['e]cesseur. See Decease.] 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.
A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had
been over the interests of the state.
--Prescott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "one who has held an office or position before the present holder," from Old French predecesseor "forebear" and directly from Late Latin praedecessorem (nominative praedecessor), from Latin prae "before" (see pre-) + decessor "retiring official," from decess-, past participle stem of decedere "go away," also "die" (see decease (n.)). Meaning "ancestor, forefather" is recorded from c.1400.
Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model. 3 (context mathematics English) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
WordNet
n. one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)
Wikipedia
Predecessor may refer to:
- A holy person announcing the approaching appearance of a prophet, see precursor (religion)
- Predecessor (graph theory), a term in graph theory
Usage examples of "predecessor".
None of her predecessors on Rossak had ever been able to accomplish anything approaching this.
AFFM ninety-nine Will have more accredited participants than any of its predecessors since the event moved to Santa Monica.
And out of that same epoch came the great Olmec sculptures, the inexplicably precise and accurate calendar the Mayans inherited from their predecessors, the inscrutable geoglyphs of Nazca, the mysterious Andean city of Tiahuanaco .
Nestorius, who depended on the near approach of his Eastern friends, persisted, like his predecessor Chrysostom, to disclaim the jurisdiction, and to disobey the summons, of his enemies: they hastened his trial, and his accuser presided in the seat of judgment.
The greater question is what kind of apostleship of Christianity did the Supreme Pontiff and his four predecessors see themselves as filling?
A behavior so very opposite to that of his amiable predecessor afforded no favorable presage of the new reign: and the Romans, deprived of power and freedom, asserted their privilege of licentious murmurs.
Elagabalus lavished away the treasures of his people in the wildest extravagance, his own voice and that of his flatterers applauded a spirit of magnificence unknown to the tameness of his predecessors.
Unlike some of his predecessors, Blitz realized that a rapidly rearming Japan presented a grave danger in Asia.
What the day before it had taken him three hours to make from striped pants, a jacketlike rag with bold checks, a brimless hat, and, with the help of an incomplete and ramshackle ladder, an armful of freshly cut willow switches, he tore down the following morning, to construct from the same materials an oddity of a very different race and faith, but which like its predecessor commanded birds to keep their distance.
I see that it was August 13, 2018 -another Monday -- that my predecessor used this gun to splatter his brains across the plate-glass window opposite this desk, like some mad expressionist splashing housepaints across a giant canvas.
They started out to correct the faults of the Mannerists, and yet their own art was based more on the art of their great predecessors than on nature.
After inspecting the whole site he found an abandoned mastaba that some predecessor had provided with a door, probably with the idea of using the structure as a storehouse.
We correct our predecessors, an effete form of assassination, and then we wait either in this life or the next for the corrective dagger to be slipped twixt our own meatless ribs.
That air of genteel poverty which her predecessor, Lilias Milne, had had in common with most of her kind was completely lacking.
He had used his veto twice in the research and development council, never with this minister of Works, although his predecessor had done it a record eighteen times on the never-completed Transmontane Highway, which was now, since the rail link, a moot point.