recedent

Obviously, his oath requires him to reject recedent, and not just if the conflict is obvious, but even if it is reasonably suspected.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Nelson Lund on Sotomayor’s Second Amendment Decision: 2009

If, for example, in the same sector of education we ask ourselves what it is that the revolution does, what is it that the revolution is doing, we can already demonstrate a great work, and extraordinary revolutionary work which does not have a precedent in our country, which does not have a recedent in any country of America.

3RD NATL CONGRESS OF MUNICIPAL EDUCATION COUNCIL 1962

A graduate of sixteen is almost unheard of, and as a matter of long range policy we do not care to set such a [P] recedent, however worthy your case may be.

Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

A settlement in the case in not without recedent, the article says.

TVBizwire Chuck Ross 2010

A very honed fellow, and keeps a much better recedent of that nature iince the a6t was made.

Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays... 1780

"toxins" I can sense my zone slipping or becoming somewhat recedent.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

Gossamer sails -- "a faint, recedent measure, and intermingling with it the sound of a boy's voice singing gaily on the misty hills:

Sally of Missouri 1905

Probatur AfTerdo, quia diuergeiites a*b Axe, & abinuicera mtiuDenfius, inegremiobliquius incidunt fuperficiei couexej Rariotis immediarefubfequentis ad Cauurn Denfioris, quam fuperriciei pianse quae confequatur ad Denfius Cauo-planum; obliquatur enim ipfumconuexumrefpedu plani, cuiputetur contingens inpun&o incidentiae eiufdem radij: per maiorem igitur refra&ionem in egrefiu e facie Caua Denfioris intra conuexum Rarius, plus recedent a ccepto prpgreffu inrra Beiifms; &: pariter ab Axe, &: a fe inuicem plus diuergent;. quam ii egrederentur e Cauo-plano Denfious ad planum Rarius.

Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656

This argument may perhaps be yet more effb£lually invalidated, or perhaps entirely fubverted by denying the expedience of that pro - hibition which is produced as a;) recedent for another reftraint.

Debates in Parliament 1787