Word Meanings - PRECEDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the

Additional info about word: PRECEDE

1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object. It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration. Kent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRECEDE)

• Lead Conduct
• guide
• precede
• induce
• spend
• pass
• commence
• inaugurate
• convoy
• persuade
• direct
• influence
• Usher
• Herald
• introduce
• announce

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRECEDE)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade

Related words: (words related to PRECEDE)

• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• USHERDOM
  The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• CONVOY
  To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy. Emerson. (more info) Etym:
• HERALD
  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• SPENDTHRIFTY
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• DIRECT
  In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body. Direct action. See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse , the language of any one quoted
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
• THRUSHER
  The song thrush.
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• REINDUCE
  To induce again.