Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

precedaneously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pre-ceda-neous-ly
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a precedaneous manner; precedingly; antecedently.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Aristotle however says, that the soul moves itself as with a lever not precedaneously, but according to accident : for it precedaneously moves the body..."
"For it is necessary that he who is adorned by the cathartic virtues, should abstain from doing any thing precedaneously in conjunction with body."
"Hence we have shown in our treatise On Families, that a life accompanied by wedlock is to be precedaneously chosen by the wise man; but a single life is not to..."

Etymology

From precedaneous + -ly.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more precedaneously (comparative) most precedaneously (superlative)

Questions

What does precedaneously mean?: In a precedaneous manner; precedingly; antecedently.
Where does precedaneously come from?: From precedaneous + -ly.

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