Crossword-Solution: ANTECESSOR 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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.