† preceˈdaneous, a. Obs.
Also 7 -nious, -nous; 7 precid-, 7–8 præcid-, 8 præcedaneous.
[app. f. precede v. + -aneous: cf. antecedaneous, succedaneous; but perh. associated in origin with L. præcīdāne-us ‘that is slaughtered or sacrificed before’ (f. cædĕre to slay), which in med.L. (Du Cange), and perh. in late L., had in particular connexions the generalized sense ‘preliminary, preceding’. Cf. the L. spelling succīdāneus beside succēdāneus.]
Happening or existing before something else; preceding, antecedent, previous.
| 1647 Hammond Power of Keys iii. 19 It was but a precedaneous power, preparatory to that other of ruling. [1656 Blount Glossogr., Precidaneous, that which goes before, or is cut or killed before.] 1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. ii. vi. 322 Precedanious to the Dropsie, are all Cachexies. 1794 T. Taylor Plotinus Introd. 16 Of goods, some are precedaneous and others preparative; and the precedaneous are such as are desirable for their own sakes, but the preparative, for the sake of other things. |
Hence † preceˈdaneously adv. Obs., previously.
| 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi κοινή xv. 213 There seems to result a necessity of examining Heathens precedaneously to their admission. |