precessor
nounEtymology Latin praecessor.
1
Obsolete A predecessor; one who came before.
- August 30 1651, Bishop Joseph Hall, letter to Thomas Fuller Your much devoted friend, precessor, and fellow-labourer, JOS. HALL, B. N. HIGHAM
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