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Backdown :: Backdown (n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.

Ecthlipsis :: Ecthlipsis (n.) The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel..

Catchword :: Catchword (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing..

Vigil :: Vigil (v. i.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever..

Yesterday :: Yesterday (adv.) On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday..

Rhopalic :: Rhopalic (a.) Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.

After-note :: After-note (n.) One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note..

Preexistent :: Preexistent (a.) Existing previously; preceding existence; as, a preexistent state..

Episyllogism :: Episyllogism (n.) A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a proposition which was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, in relation to this, the prosyllogism..

Preambulatory :: Preambulatory (a.) Preceding; going before; introductory.

Ebb :: Ebb (a.) Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.

Induction :: Induction (n.) A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also successive induction..

Before :: Before (prep.) Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than..

Antecedaneous :: Antecedaneous (a.) Antecedent; preceding in time.

Before :: Before (prep.) Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.

Receding :: Receding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reced.

Ninth :: Ninth (a.) Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.

Precedent :: Precedent (a.) Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services..

Divergent :: Divergent (a.) Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent..

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