Precedent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRECEDENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something that goes before
• an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances
• a previous case or legal decision that may be or (binding precedent) must be followed in subsequent similar cases
• previous case or occurrence regarded as an example to be followed
• Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.
• A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign.
• A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
• A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases.
• an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
• (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
• a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws
• a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
ADJECTIVE:
• preceding
• preceding in time, order, or importance
• Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services.
• preceding in time, order, or significance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance

Words related to PRECEDENT

precedently19 precedents15

How to use PRECEDENT in a sentence

• For this reason Broken Tooth was preparing to break the precedent of his tribe.
• Liberal beyond precedent, Kubla Khan encouraged the establishment of a Christian bishopric, in which John de Monte Corvino was the first representative of the Holy See.
• The adhesion is sudden and momentary, but it either forms a precedent for his line of thought and action, or it is presently seen to have been inconsistent with his true mind.
• They had not intended to do it for fear of establishing a precedent.
• Any other plan would be contrary to reason, to precedent, and to decorum.
• To which poetry would be made subsequent, or, indeed, rather precedent, as being less subtile and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
• For it is quite inevitable that in such a confusion and disturbance of all things men should be guided by the present emergency rather than by precedent.
• If his ideas should triumph over those which have been consecrated by long experience, after the precedent of Law, of Mazarin, and of the Lorraine princes, M.
• The San Galli attempted to follow classical precedent with stricter severity.
• We are settling a precedent which is to last for generations.
• An Emperor of the Swabian House would have been compelled by precedent and superstition to observe this form.
• I have a return of malicious injuries which form the subject of presentment at these Assizes, in number, I understand, exceeding all former precedent.
• It is very true of the Chinaman that precedent determines his action.
• Precedent, not theory, has been the argument for democracy in England.
• Go back, search history, you will not find a precedent for this.
• Therefore, he, the British General, must always try! must never listen to the rule-of-thumb advisers who seek to chain down adventure to precedent.
• It is true that the phenomenon is not altogether without precedent.
• Relying upon English precedent, he might in fact feel that he was peculiarly fitted for the task.
• The action of the Illinois Supreme Court was by no means without precedent.
• Precedent was of little value, as present environment controlled my actions.
• In March 1581 the king and Lennox tried to propitiate the preachers by signing a negative Covenant against Rome, later made into a precedent for the famous Covenant of 1638.
• While this case is probably one where the exercise of generosity would be pleasant and most timely to the recipient, I can not think that such a precedent should be established.
• It seems to me that such a precedent ought not to be established.

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