Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Running forward; specifically, in zoology, extending cephalad; antrorse: the opposite of
recurrent .
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Monuments and cities but express precurrent mental objects.
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time Various 1905
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English civil war in the reign of Charles I., who should duly have noted the signs precurrent and concurrent of those days, and should also have read the contemporary political pamphlets, coming thus prepared, could not have failed, after a corresponding study of the
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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