predecessory

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English

Etymology

From predecessor +‎ -y.

Adjective

predecessory

  1. Being or pertaining to a predecessor.
    • 1927, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, page 876:
      Applicant is successor to the Seaboard & Roanoke, through merger and consolidation, and through agreement has assumed obligations of the predecessory company.
    • 1999, Arthur F. Kinney, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
      Writing is filled with predecessory texts, learned and vernacular, wise and foolish, and the process of rhetorical education is largely a process of ...
    • 2001, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 57:
      What Oliphant has meant tot tribes is that states have predecessory rights but tribes do not. How did this happen west of the Mississippi, where there were clear tribal-nation predecessory rights established in treaties prior to the establishment of any status of statehood in the West?