Definition of Precesses

1. Verb. (third-person singular of precess) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Precesses

1. precess [v] - See also: precess

Lexicographical Neighbors of Precesses

preceptorship
preceptorships
preceptory
preceptour
preceptress
preceptresses
precepts
preceramic
precertification
precertified
precertifies
precertify
precertifying
precess
precessed
precesses (current term)
precessing
precession
precession of the equinoxes
precessional
precessions
precessor
precessors
precharge
precharged
precharges
precharging
precheck
prechecked
prechecking

Literary usage of Precesses

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

1. Spinning Tops: The "Operatives' Lecture" of the British Association Meeting by John Perry (1890)
"Delay the precession and the body falls, as gravity would make it do if it were not spinning. IV. A common top precesses in the same direction as that in ..."

2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1863)
"... there exists a great analogy between the precesses of fermentation and many organic metamorphoses which occur in some diseases. ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1885)
"Several apparent instances of the inhibition of reflex acts are not really such : in these cases all the nervous precesses of the act may take place in ..."

4. Introduction to Economics by Henry Rogers Seager (1904)
"... that is, whether to direct or to capitalistic precesses of production, or whether independently or in co-operation with the organised efforts of others. ..."

5. On Poisons, in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1848)
"... ounces of Mood taken from one subject by two precesses;—and the whole of the duodenum and part of the ilium of another,—both of whom had perished under ..."

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