Crossword-Solution: ANTECESSOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Antecessor | n. | One who goes before; a predecessor. |
| Antecessor | n. | An ancestor; a progenitor. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “ANTECESSOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Previous incumbent | 1 answer |
| predecessor | 37 answers |
| forerunner | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZEMEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ANTECESSOR (5)
They said they used to go to a gravel-pit that lay hard by the cross-way, where they put a vest upon their heads, and danced "round and round and round about." They then went to the cross-way, and called three times upon the devil; the first time in a low still voice; the second, somewhat louder; and the third, very loudly, with these words, "Antecessor, come, and carry us to Blockula!" This invocation never failed to bring him to their view.
Praepositus Sacri Cubiculi, and to Antiochus, Præfectus Praetorio Italiae; and has been preserved by Julian Antecessor, and in the Corpus Juris Civilis, after the novels and edicts of Justinian, Justin, and Tiberius.] 58 (return) [ A still greater number was consumed by famine in the southern provinces, without the Ionian Gulf.
The former holder is marked by the perfectly colourless word “ancestor” (“antecessor”), a word as yet meaning, not “forefather,” but “predecessor” of any kind.
The grantee stepped exactly into the place of the _antecessor_; he inherited all his rights and all his burthens.
But the grantee often took possession of the whole of the land held by the _antecessor_, as if it were all alike his own.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).