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Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.

To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine. [Obs.] Spenser.

A predecessor; an ancestor. [Obs.] Shak.

Predestined. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale.

vey. The foremost minds of the next . . . era were not, in power of grasp, equal to their predecessors. Z. Taylor.

f a sail. Totten. To hand down, to transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor; as, fables are handed down from age to age; to forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court); as, the Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision. -- To hand over, to yield co…

Jehovah. See Elohist. The characteristic manner of the Jehovist differs from that of his predecessor [the Elohist]. He is fuller and freer in his descriptions; more reflective in his assignment of motives and causes; more artificial in mode of narration. S. Davidson.

dea the inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the "old thought" of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation. The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought, used in England.

Having a predelection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond. "A partial parent." Pope. Not partial to an ostentatious display. Sir W. Scott.

A predecessor. [Obs.] Fuller.

Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate.

To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain. Milton.

One who reigns before another; a sovereign predecessor. [R.] Warner.

To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. Sir E. Dering.

With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong. Pope.

cts are regarded as unstable elements, each with an atomic weight a little lower than its predecessor. It is possible that lead is the stable end product. At the same time the light gas helium is formed; it probably consists of the expelled alpha particles. The heat effect mentioned above is ascribed to the impacts of…

The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment.

a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.

A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it. Nares.