præcede

See also: praecede

English

Verb

præcede (third-person singular simple present præcedes, present participle præceding, simple past and past participle præceded)

1. Obsolete spelling of precede.
   • 1609, a work quoted in 1980 by Mary Chan in Music in the Theatre of Ben Jonson (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0‒19‒812632‒8, 978‒0‒19‒812632‒4), page 190:

     [The Queen] commaunded [Jonson] to think on some Daunce, or shew, that might præcede hers, and haue the place of a foyle, or false-Masque.