Definition of Precedented

1. Adjective. Having or supported or justified by a precedent.

Antonyms: Unprecedented

Definition of Precedented

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

Definition of Precedented

1. Adjective. (rare chiefly legal) Having a precedent; not novel ¹

2. Verb. (rare) (past of precedent) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Precedented

precautions
precautious
precautiously
precautiousness
precava
precavae
precaval
precedaneous
precede
preceded
precedence
precedences
precedencies
precedency
precedent
precedented (current term)
precedentedly
precedential
precedentially
precedenting
precedently
precedents
precedes
precedest
precedeth
preceding
preceding(a)
preceed
preceese
precel

Literary usage of Precedented

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... real transaction shall appear fair, though somewhat variant from that which is described, it would seem to be unjust and un- 8ee 14 OTTO. precedented to ..."

2. Beethoven by Richard Wagner, Albert Ross Parsons (1873)
"precedented artistic deed which that work [the Ninth Symphony] contains ; since we declare that the work of art which was formed and quickened entirely by ..."

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