"precedaneous" meaning in English

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "precedaneous (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:",
          "text": "The necessity of this performance to any undertaking may appear by those several precedaneous methods in common life , which have nothing in themselves to ingratiate them unto us",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "preceding; antecedent; previous"
      ],
      "id": "en-precedaneous-en-adj-m4VJJsAK",
      "links": [
        [
          "preceding",
          "preceding"
        ],
        [
          "antecedent",
          "antecedent"
        ],
        [
          "previous",
          "previous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) preceding; antecedent; previous"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌpɹɛsɪˈdeɪni.əs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "precedaneous"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "precedaneous (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:",
          "text": "The necessity of this performance to any undertaking may appear by those several precedaneous methods in common life , which have nothing in themselves to ingratiate them unto us",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "preceding; antecedent; previous"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "preceding",
          "preceding"
        ],
        [
          "antecedent",
          "antecedent"
        ],
        [
          "previous",
          "previous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) preceding; antecedent; previous"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌpɹɛsɪˈdeɪni.əs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "precedaneous"
}