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Webster 1913 Edition


Precedented

Prec′e-dent-ed

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Adj.
Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind.
Walpole.

Webster 1828 Edition


Precedented

PREC'EDENTED

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Adj.
Having a precedent; authorized by an example of a like kind.

Definition 2024


precedented

precedented

English

Adjective

precedented (comparative more precedented, superlative most precedented)

  1. (rare, chiefly law) Having a precedent; not novel
    • 1905, George Pierce Baker & Henry Barrett Huntington, The Principles of Argumentation, page 660:
      We have a right to take any method that is legal and is precedented.

Verb

precedented

  1. (rare) simple past tense and past participle of precedent
    • 2005, America The Book, “So You Want To Be A Precedent”, in (Please provide the title of the work), page 92:
      "Is 'precedented' even a word?" you may ask. Well, it is now, Noah-****-Webster. I just precedented it.

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