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English
Etymology
From precedaneous + -ly.
Adverb
precedaneously (comparative more precedaneously, superlative most precedaneously)
- (obsolete) In a precedaneous manner; precedingly; antecedently.
1806, Aristotle, Works - Volume 1, page 478: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: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...