"præcursor" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIX, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume XII, pages 243–244:",
          "text": "In an age leſs ripe for reformation, the præcurſor of Zuinglius was heard with applauſe : a brace and ſimple people imbibed and long retained the colour of his opinion; and his art, or merit, ſeduced the biſhop of Conſtance, and even the pope’s legate, who forgot, for his ſake, the intereſt of their maſter and their order.",
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