ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Precedaneously

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Precedaneously is an adverb meaning (obsolete) In a precedaneous manner; precedingly; antecedently.

Meaning

(obsolete) In a precedaneous manner; precedingly; antecedently.

Example Sentences

For it is necessary that he who is adorned by the cathartic virtues, should abstain from doing any thing precedaneously in conjunction with body.
Aristotle however says, that the soul moves itself as with a lever not precedaneously, but according to accident : for it precedaneously moves the body.
Hence we have shown in our treatise On Families, that a life accompanied by wedlock is to be precedaneously chosen by the wise man; but a single life is not to.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antecedaneously, precedently, beforehand, priorly, precedentially, beforely.

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