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Harbinger :: Harbinger (n.) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings..

Whereas :: Whereas (conj.) When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent..

Better :: Better (n.) One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural..

Perspective :: Perspective (a.) The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.

Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc..

Precede :: Precede (v. t.) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.

Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.

Baronet :: Baronet (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners..

Priority :: Priority (a.) Precedence; superior rank.

Idiopathy :: Idiopathy (n.) A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease.

Recede :: Recede (v. i.) To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory..

Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To fix the course of; to impel and direct; -- with a remoter object preceded by to; as, another's will determined me to this course..

Premise :: Premise (n.) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted..

Against :: Against (prep.) Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over..

Ebb :: Ebb (v. i.) To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.

Preliminary :: Preliminary (n.) That which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the year before entering college..

Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

Succession :: Succession (n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology..

Precedented :: Precedented (a.) Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind.

Lead :: Lead (v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t..

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