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Definition of Precedency
1. Noun. Status established in order of importance or urgency. "National independence takes priority over class struggle"
Generic synonyms: High Status
Specialized synonyms: Back Burner, Front Burner
Derivative terms: Precedential, Prioritize
2. Noun. Preceding in time.
Generic synonyms: Earliness
Derivative terms: Antecede, Antecedent, Antecede, Antecedent, Anterior, Precede, Precedent, Precede, Prior, Prioritize
Antonyms: Posteriority
3. Noun. The act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony).
Generic synonyms: Activity
Derivative terms: Precede, Precedent, Precede, Precedent, Precede, Precede, Precede
Definition of Precedency
1. Noun. Precedence; superiority. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) The fact of serving as a precedent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Precedency
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precedency
Literary usage of Precedency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"Pré- And since precedency or pre-eminence of rank is a ... obtained the honours
of crowned heads ; bu. their ambassadors yield precedency to those of kings. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Heard and Decided in the House of Lords on Appeals and by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1873)
"precedency of Counsel. The Attorney-General of England has precedency over the
Lord Advocate of Scotland, in all matters in which they may appear as counsel ..."
3. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller (1837)
"Precedents for precedency. Observe the method in the nomination of these
commissioners, wherein no wonder if the bishops precede so great an earl. ..."
4. Culloden Papers: Comprising an Extensive and Interesting Correspondence from by H. R. Duff (1815)
"LETTER from the Queen, settling the precedency of the Courts of Justice in Scotland.
By her Majesty the Queen, Guardian of the Kingdome, &c. ..."
5. The Earldom of Mar in Sunshine and in Shade During Five Hundred Years: With by Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford (1882)
"Because the Commissioners acted and the Decreet proceeded in ignorance of the
true facts of the case affecting the Mar precedency, in consequence of Earl ..."
6. Culloden Papers: Comprising an Extensive and Interesting Correspondence from by H. R. Duff (1815)
"LETTER from the Queen, settling the precedency of the Courts of Justice in Scotland.
By her Majesty the Queen, Guardian of the Kingdome, &c. ..."
7. The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Non-conformists by Daniel Neal (1817)
"As to the synod of Dor!, no precedency was given to the bishop on account of his
episcopal ... The case of precedency, according to Brandt, appears to have ..."
8. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United by George Edward Cokayne (1887)
"No such acquiescence, however, waa given to (8) the precedency of the ... In this
creation the clause of precedency was over all (they were but two) ..."
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