Definition of Precede

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Precede

To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

To go before in place, rank, or importance.

To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.

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Precede Quotations

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia Woolf

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
Douglas Horton

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
Thomas S. Monson

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Karl Kraus

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
Giacomo Casanova

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Thomas Kempis

Precede Translations

precede in Dutch is voorafgaan, voorzijn
precede in German is vorausgehen, vorangehen
precede in Portuguese is preceda
precede in Spanish is preceder

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