antecessor
Noun
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Noun
antecessor (plural antecessors)
- (now, rare) A person or thing that precedes or goes before.
- Synonyms: precursor, predecessor
- Antonyms: successor
- 1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57,
- […] the Waldenses[,] Antecessors of the Protestants
- 1810, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on a Barrister’s Hints on Evangelical Preaching” in Henry Nelson Coleridge (ed.), The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: W. Pickering, 1839, p. 343,
- Yet who says, I have faith in the existence of George II., as his present Majesty’s antecessor and grandfather?
- 1890, Grant Allen, The Great Taboo, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter 23, p. 209,
- This, then, is their horrid counsel and device—that each one of their gods should kill his antecessor.
- 1994, Thomas Cleary, The Human Element: A Course in Resourceful Thinking, Boston: Shambhala, Introduction, pp. 14-15,
- I Ching in the general form it is known today
[ sic] is approximately three thousand years old. It is the third in a series of such texts, its antecessors supposed by some scholars to have been composed six and twelve hundred years earlier.
- I Ching in the general form it is known today
- (now, rare) A person from whom one is descended.
- Synonyms: ancestor
- Antonyms: descendant
- 1547, Arthur Kelton, A chronycle with a genealogie declaryng that the Brittons and Welshemen are linealiye dyscended from Brutus of Troy, London: Richard Grafton,
- […] some, hath iudged wrongfully
- As in reproche, of our country
- Deniyng playne, moste noble Brute
- Our antecessor our stocke and our frute.
- 1614, Thomas Wilson (lexicographer), A Commentarie upon the Most Divine Epistle of S. Paul to the Romanes, London, Chapter 11, Dialogue 13, p. 926,
- […] promises made to Abraham, and to other antecessors of the Iewes,
- 1992, Lynne Bowen, Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists, Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, Chapter 1, p. 5,
- At his mother’s knee he had heard of the exploits of her family, which boasted among its antecessors a surgeon on Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson’s ship at Battle of Trafalgar.
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