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Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting. Their credential letters on both sides. Camden.

Removing; departing. Ash.

The shedding of teeth. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Excess. [R.]

Eating out; consuming. [R.]

The act of interceding; intercession; intervention. [R.] Bp. Reynolds.

Passing between; mediating; pleading. [R.] -- In`ter*ced"ent*ly, adv.

Between peduncles; esp., between the peduncles, or crura, of the cerebrum.

Language; speech; voice; cry. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

A miscreant, or believer in a false religious doctrine. [Obs.] Holinshed.

A canine appetite; bulimia. [Obs.]

Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n.

Phagedenic.

t or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.

Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services. Shak. "A precedent injury." Bacon. Condition precedent (Law), a condition which precede the vesting of an estate, or the accruing of a right.

Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.

Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.

Beforehand; antecedently.

A writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there.

Five-toothed; as, a quinquedentate leaf.