precedaneously
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From precedaneous + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]precedaneously (comparative more precedaneously, superlative most precedaneously)
- (obsolete) In a precedaneous manner; precedingly; antecedently.
- 1806, Aristotle, Works - Volume 1, page 478[1]:
- Aristotle however says, that the soul moves itself as with a lever not precedaneously, but according to accident : for it precedaneously moves the body...
- 1823, Porphyrius (the philosopher), Select Works of Porphyry, page 217
- For it is necessary that he who is adorned by the cathartic virtues, should abstain from doing any thing precedaneously in conjunction with body.
- 2015, Seneca, Musonius Rufus, Hierocles Marcus Aurelius, Stoic Six Pack 2, page 155[2]:
- 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...