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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Precedent
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(1):
(n.) A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
(2):
(n.) Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.
(3):
(a.) Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services.
(4):
(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.
(5):
(n.) A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign.