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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
precede .
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Examples
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But Thou precedest all things past, by the sublimity of an ever-present eternity; and surpassest all future because they are future, and when they come, they shall be past; but Thou art the Same, and Thy years fail not.
The Confessions 1999
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In the eminence of thy ever-present eternity, thou precedest all times past, and extendest beyond all future times, for they are still to come -- and when they have come, they will be past.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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'Thou, O God, precedest all past times by the height of Thine ever-present Eternity; and Thou exceedest all future times, since they _are_ future, and, once they have come, will be past times.
Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903
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