ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Predecessory

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Predecessory is an adjective meaning Being or pertaining to a predecessor.

Meaning

Being or pertaining to a predecessor.

Example Sentences

Writing is filled with predecessory texts, learned and vernacular, wise and foolish, and the process of rhetorical education is largely a process of .
Applicant is successor to the Seaboard & Roanoke, through merger and consolidation, and through agreement has assumed obligations of the predecessory company.
What Oliphant has meant tot tribes is that states have predecessory rights but tribes do not. How did this happen west of the Mississippi, where there were clear tribal-nation predecessory rights established in treaties prior to the establishment of any status of statehood in the West?

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include predecessorial, predecessive, precedentary, precedaneous, precursory, precursive.

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