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Preceding, Preceid(e)ing, pres. p. and ppl. adj. Also: preceidding, preciding, preceeding, perceiding. [e.m.E. presedyng (1494), preceding (1601): cf. Precedand and Precedent.]

1. pres. p. a. Preceding in time, antedating, (just) before. = Precedand A 1 a. 1564 Grant Chart. 129.
All ȝeris and termis preceding the det heirof 1573 Reg. Privy C. II 277.
Quhilk wes ay precheit in the said kirk preceding his intery thairto 1586 Exch. R. XXI 285 n.
Be ony auld rollis … preciding the saidis charteris and infeftmentis and sensyne 1592 Grey Friars II 70.
The xix day of August yeirlie preceiding the deat heirof 1593 Conv. Burghs I 424.
Fourtein dayes preceding Mairtymes nixtt 1597 Grant Chart. 191.
Preceideing 1629 Justiciary Cases I 100.
Upone malice preceiding minassis and succeiding loissis accoirding thairto 1654 Rothesay B. Rec. 3.
Preceiding this 25 October 1667 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 242.
Ane yeir preceiding their removeall 1689 Foulis Acc. Bk. 117.
And all counts preceiding this date

b. Going in front. 1533 Boece 123.
Than the kingis familiaris preceding the chenis and harnessingis conquest in the Britan weris war borne

2. ppl. adj. a. (Immediately) preceding in time, (immediately) anterior, just past, ‘last’. = Precedand B a.At first chiefly or only following the noun.(1) 1558-66 Knox I 46.
All his hole sermones hie had tawght befoir the haill Lentrantyde preceding 1568 Hosack Mary Q. of Scots I 537.
Quhair she lay the nychtis preceding 1576 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I 277.
The day preceiding a1578 Pitsc. I 145/18.
In the ȝeir preceiding 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Iter.
And cal all them quha are absent from the aires preceeding 1630-1651 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 408. 1631 Justiciary Cases I 188. 1643 St. A. Baxter Bks. 113.
For the last ȝeir nor na ȝeir preceiding 1646 Row xxxii.
On the Thursday preceiding c1680 W. Row Blair 161.
Where the army had leaguered the year preceding(2) 1604 Ellon Presb. 51.
Had hantit the word the tua preceiding Sundays 1643 Rec. Old Aberd. I 73.
Perceiding a1650 Row 187.
In the preceeding Parliament 1649 Elgin Rec. II 436.
A count salbe taken off … all misdemeanour vpon the preceiding Lords day 1661 Glasgow Merchants House 49.
Balance resting in hands of Andrew Gibsoun preceding collectour 1675 Cupar Trades 13 Oct.
This preceidding yeir

b. Preceding in order, appearing just before, foregoing.(1) 1562-3 Winȝet I 37/2.
The caus quhy we haif intitulit this tractate on the maner preceding 1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 31.
Summa totalis … contened in five luifis preceiding extendis to [etc.](2) 1585 James VI Ess. 58.
The preceding syllable 1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 93.
According to thir preceiding comptis 1674 Cunningham Diary 45.