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Definition of Precurses
1. precurse [n] - See also: precurse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precurses
Literary usage of Precurses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"The darkness of every worrying experience goes on deepening into gloom, but when
the sundown occurs—the hour that surely predicts and precurses the ..."
2. Heathenism Under the Searchlight: The Call of the Far East by William Remfry Hunt (1908)
"It is as the hushing awe of one of Nature's moods that precurses a storm. Our boat
racks by gentle ripples of little tides that come from unseen depths. ..."
3. Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins Belonging to His by William Henry Smyth (1856)
"... with her right hand, and a laurel crown in her left; under the horses the
numeral mark A'l—which precurses the noted mark of Lloyd's marine insurance. ..."
4. The Principal Southern and Swiss Health Resorts: Their Climate and Medical by William Marcet (1883)
"Along these shores, and especially those of Catalonia, a dense mist generated on
the ocean precurses the easterly winds. Gales from the north-east, ..."
5. The Mediterranean: A Memoir Physical, Historical, and Nautical by William Henry Smyth (1854)
"... precurses the easterly winds which drive it in, and occasions lassitude both
to animal and vegetable life. When this first appears, ships at anchor ..."
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