Percursor vs Precedent - What's the difference?

As a verb precedent is

percursor

Not English

Percursor has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'percursor':

programmer, preacher, phreaker, precursor, procurer, preserver, procurator, perjurer, prescript, procreator, prissier, perisher, parkgoer, preachier, prescriber, percurrent, procreant, progressor, programer, precredit, proscriber, precurrer, perruquier, proscript, precariat, periauger, perjuror, perjurest, procurest, preservest

precedent

English

(wikipedia precedent)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)

An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.

* Hooker

Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only.

(legal) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.

(obsolete, with definite article) The aforementioned (thing).

*, New York 2001, p.74:

A third argument may be derived from the precedent .

The previous version.

(obsolete) A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms

* binding precedent * declaratory precedent * original precedent * persuasive precedent * precedented * precedential * precedent-setting * precedent sub silentio * unprecedented

Adjective

(-)

Happening or taking place earlier in time; previous or preceding.

*, III.2.1.i:

In the precedent section mention was made, amongst other pleasant objects, of this comeliness and beauty which proceeds from women […].

Verb

(en verb)

(legal) To provide precedents for.

(legal) To be a precedent for.