• Præcede

    Full definition of præcede

    Verb

    1. Obsolete spelling of precede
      • 1609, a work quoted in 1980 by Mary Chan in Music in the Theatre of Ben Jonson (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0‒19‒812632‒8, 978‒0‒19‒812632‒4), page 190:Queen commaunded Jonson to think on some Daunce, or shew, that might præcede hers, and haue the place of a foyle, or false-Masque.
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