precedency
English
Etymology
From precedent + -ency.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛsɪdənsi/
Noun
precedency (countable and uncountable, plural precedencies)
- Precedence; superiority.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- Archimedes master of this Science, and who in truth and certaintie assumeth unto himselfe a precedencie above all others, saith, the Sunne is a God of enflamed yron.
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- (obsolete) The fact of serving as a precedent.