precedent
English
Alternative forms
- præcedent (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French, from Latin praecēdēns, present participle of praecēdere (“to precede”); See precede.
Pronunciation
Adjective:
- IPA(key): /pɹɪˈsiː.dənt/
Noun:
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: prĕsʹĭ-dənt, IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛs.ɪ.dənt/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈpɹes.ə.dənt/, /ˈpɹiː.sə.dənt/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
precedent (plural precedents)
- An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
- Hooker
- Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only.
- Hooker
- (law) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
- An established habit or custom.
- (obsolete, with definite article) The aforementioned (thing).
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):, New York 2001, p.74:
- A third argument may be derived from the precedent.
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- The previous version.
- (obsolete) A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Coordinate terms
- (a case used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent one): case law
Derived terms
terms derived from precedent (noun)
- binding precedent
- declaratory precedent
- original precedent
- persuasive precedent
- precedented
- precedential
- precedent-setting
- precedent sub silentio
- unprecedented
Translations
past act used as example
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prior judgment in law
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Adjective
precedent (not comparable)
- Happening or taking place earlier in time; previous or preceding. [from 14th c.]
- (now rare) Coming before in a particular order or arrangement; preceding, foregoing. [from 15th c.]
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:
- In the precedent section mention was made, amongst other pleasant objects, of this comeliness and beauty which proceeds from women […].
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Translations
earlier in time
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Verb
precedent (third-person singular simple present precedents, present participle precedenting, simple past and past participle precedented)
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin praecēdēns.
Related terms
- precedència
- precedir
Further reading
- “precedent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “precedent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “precedent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “precedent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French precedent. First attested in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpreː.seːˈdɛnt/, /ˌpreː.səˈdɛnt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pre‧ce‧dent
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Derived terms
- precedentwerking
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin praecēdēns. Compare Middle French preceder.
Adjective
precedent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular precedent or precedente)
- preceding; that comes before
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):
- Fievre ethique vient sans fievre precedente
- Ethical[?] fever comes without a preceding fever
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