Crossword-Solution: PRECURSORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Precursory | a. | Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever. |
| Precursory | n. | An introduction. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PRECURSORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Indicative of something to follow. | 1 answer |
| preceding as a precursor or harbinger | 1 answer |
| introductory | 26 answers |
| prior | 34 answers |
| anterior | 48 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
AZMECE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PRECURSORY (5)
According to David, descent is proved by internal resemblances: "L'home a lou dintre d'un por." The inventory of precursory types sees nothing but organic resemblances and disdains the differences of aptitude.
Instead of allowing the precursory fire-ships to drift down the stream, at the regular intervals agreed upon, he despatched them all rapidly, and helter skelter, one after another, as fast as they could be set forth on their career.
Tassis was despatched as chief of a legation, precursory to a more stately embassy to be confided to the Duke of Frias.
But this we were not persistent in, for two reasons: in the first place, having frittered away so much time at Mombas, and in inspecting ruins on the way from it, we had no time left ere the kuzi, or little rains precursory to the great monsoon, which would shortly set in on the high lands near the Great Mountain, would fall and impede our progress; and, in the second, we were short of cash.
Since all the precursory men of genius agreed so closely upon those points, must they not be the very foundations of to-morrow's new religion, the necessary faith which this century must bequeath to the coming century, in order that the latter may make of it a human religion of peace, solidarity and love? Then, all at once, there came a leap in Pierre's thoughts.
Quotes with PRECURSORY (2)
Why should anything exist at all, you might ask? Existence didn't just spring out of nothing whatsoever. Even if there was a time of No-Thingness, then there must have been an inherent or precursory realm of possibility; a possibility that something -- anything -- such as the imaginal, might exist. Why are we here at all? Because this was a possibility, and we are the living proof that there must have been such a possibility. So, you might say that existence, in one form or a…
On the other hand, it is also characteristic of the state of philosophical inquiry today and has been for a long time that, while there has been extensive controversy about whether or not the *a priori* can be known, it has never occurred to the protagonists to ask first what could really have been meant by the fact that a time-determination turns up here and why it must turn up at all. To be sure, as long as we orient ourselves toward the common concept of time we are at an …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1953).