Crossword-Solution: PRECEDENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Precedent | a. | Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services. |
| Precedent | n. | Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example. |
| Precedent | n. | A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign. |
| Precedent | n. | A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy. |
| Precedent | n. | A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “PRECEDENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Authoritative example. | 1 answer |
| preceding in time, order, or significance | 1 answer |
| Something to be set | 1 answer |
| Pressure to withdraw conservÔö¼┬íationists? It's happened before | 1 answer |
| One might be cited | 1 answer |
| Legal forerunner | 1 answer |
| Legal decision serving as an example | 1 answer |
| Basis for a legal decision. | 1 answer |
| Decision serving as a pattern for the future. | 1 answer |
| Earlier case | 1 answer |
| First example | 2 answers |
| Authoritative rule. | 3 answers |
| Pre | 9 answers |
| AN AUTHORITATIVE RULE | 10 answers |
| FIRST in the field | 10 answers |
| AN EXAMPLE THAT IS USED TO JUSTIFY SIMILAR OCCURRENCES AT A LATER TIME | 11 answers |
| A SUBJECT MENTIONED EARLIER | 11 answers |
| prefatory | 13 answers |
| Aforesaid | 16 answers |
| Elder | 22 answers |
| prior | 34 answers |
| predecessor | 37 answers |
| Former | 42 answers |
| Example | 45 answers |
| Precept | 45 answers |
| anterior | 48 answers |
| Previous | 49 answers |
| Foregoing | 50 answers |
| Past | 59 answers |
| forerunner | 69 answers |
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Sentences with PRECEDENT (5)
Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief Constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar difficulty.
Kantos Kan was sombre in contemplation of the further calamity that might fall upon Helium should Zat Arras attempt to follow the age-old precedent that allotted a terrible death to fugitives from the Valley Dor.
Both in economics and in politics, historical custom and precedent has limited minority power and has protected the welfare of the community.
His interference, in that particular instance, might have been an excellent thing, but to permit it would have been to establish a most pernicious precedent.
The experience of the guardian’s widow having been precisely similar, and the deplorable precedent of Laura’s career being present to all their minds, none of these ladies felt any obligation to intervene farther in Sophy’s affairs; and she was accordingly left to her own resources.
Quotes with PRECEDENT (3)
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No suc…
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. The universe is no…
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1953–2010).