Crossword-Solution: PRECEDING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preceding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Precede |
| Preceding | a. | Going before; -- opposed to following. |
| Preceding | a. | In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2. |
We have 60 clues for the answer “PRECEDING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| going or coming before | 1 answer |
| Coming before | 4 answers |
| COMING (ant.) | 5 answers |
| preparatory | 10 answers |
| FIRST in the field | 10 answers |
| prolegomena | 13 answers |
| Aforementioned | 13 answers |
| prefatory | 13 answers |
| Once upon a time | 14 answers |
| Aforesaid | 16 answers |
| years ago | 16 answers |
| precedent | 16 answers |
| Sometime | 17 answers |
| precocious | 19 answers |
| Preface | 20 answers |
| Primordial ___ | 20 answers |
| quickened | 21 answers |
| precipitant | 21 answers |
| ___ Eve. | 24 answers |
| introductory | 26 answers |
| Ordinal | 30 answers |
| prior | 34 answers |
| Piecemeal | 35 answers |
| Pending | 36 answers |
| occurring previously | 36 answers |
| Greater than | 38 answers |
| headmost | 38 answers |
| in front of | 38 answers |
| sooner | 39 answers |
| onetime | 40 answers |
| Prior to | 41 answers |
| initially | 42 answers |
| Former | 42 answers |
| Heretofore | 42 answers |
| Ere | 43 answers |
| Ordered | 43 answers |
| Previously | 44 answers |
| Formerly | 44 answers |
| Erstwhile | 47 answers |
| anterior | 48 answers |
| preliminary | 49 answers |
| Already | 49 answers |
| Earlier | 49 answers |
| Previous | 49 answers |
| Foregoing | 50 answers |
| Ex- | 50 answers |
| fore | 50 answers |
| in advance | 50 answers |
| extinct | 51 answers |
| beforehand | 51 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRECEDING (5)
The Buffoon grunted and squeaked away first, and obtained, as on the preceding day, the applause and cheers of the spectators.
Mitsotakis inherited several severe economic problems from the preceding socialist and caretaker governments, which neglected the runaway budget deficit, a ballooning current account deficit, and accelerating inflation.
During the twelvemonth preceding this time he had been enabled by sustained efforts of industry and chronic good spirits to lease the small sheep-farm of which Norcombe Hill was a portion, and stock it with two hundred sheep.
These were appropriated by the early Buddhists by the simple expedient of making Kasyâpa the immediately preceding incarnation of the Buddha.
Here they sat down on a luxuriant heap of moss; which at some epoch of the preceding century, had been a gigantic pine, with its roots and trunk in the darksome shade, and its head aloft in the upper atmosphere.
Quotes with PRECEDING (3)
Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be dogmatic, that is, derive its proof from secure *a priori* principles), but only to *dogmatism*, that is, to the presumption that it is possible to make any progress with pure (philosophical) knowledge from concepts according to principles, such as reason has long been in the habit of using, without first inquiring in what way, and by what right, it h…
We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary practical use of my reason *God, freedom, immortality*, unless at the same time *I deprive* speculative reason of its pretensions to transcendent insights. Reason, namely, in order to arrive at these, must employ principles which extend only to objects of possible experience, and which, if in spite of this they are applied also to what cannot be an object of experience, actually alw…
God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being changed. Secondly, things with dimensions are potential of division. But the starting-point for all existence must be wholly real and not potential in any way: though things that get realized begin as potential, preceding them is the source of their realization which must already be real. Thirdly, living bodies are superior to other bo…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, New Yorker, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2010–2022).