predecessory

English

Etymology

predecessor +‎ -y

Adjective

predecessory

1. Being or pertaining to a predecessor.
   • 1927, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, page 876:

     Applicant is successor to the Seaboard & Roanoke, through merger and consolidation, and through agreement has assumed obligations of the predecessory company.

   • 1999, Arthur F. Kinney, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

     Writing is filled with predecessory texts, learned and vernacular, wise and foolish, and the process of rhetorical education is largely a process of ...

   • 2001, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 57:

     What Oliphant has meant tot tribes is that states have predecessory rights but tribes do not. How did this happen west of the Mississippi, where there were clear tribal-nation predecessory rights established in treaties prior to the establishment of any status of statehood in the West?