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Shrovetide :: Shrovetide (n.) The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday..

First :: First (a.) Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign..

Divergency :: Divergency (n.) A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines..

Precontract :: Precontract (n.) A contract preceding anothe.

Friday :: Friday (n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday..

Proxime :: Proxime (a.) Next; immediately preceding or following.

Penult :: Penult (n.) The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.

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

Hereinbefore :: Hereinbefore (adv.) In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.)..

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..

Spiral :: Spiral (a.) Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring..

Bastard :: Bastard (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book..

Vigil :: Vigil (v. i.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast..

Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

Next :: Next (superl.) Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order.

Campaign :: Campaign (n.) Political operations preceding an election; a canvass.

Antenuptial :: Antenuptial (a.) Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement..

Afar :: Afar (adv.) At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off..

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

Prefecundation :: Prefecundation (n.) A term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation..

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