Supercede vs Previous - What's the difference?

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As a verb supercede

is .

As an adjective previous is

prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.

As a noun previous is

(informal|uk) an existing criminal record; short for "previous convictions".

supercede

English

Verb

* 1491 , Acta Dom. Conc. :

He sall supercede þe payment of þe said v^c frankis.

* 1857 , The American Law Register — On the Doctrine of Uses as an Element of our Law of Conveyances , Vol. 6, ? 2/3:

To it a new species of conveyancing owes its origin, which dispenses with livery of seisin, and almost entirely supercedes , in practice, the employment of common law deeds.

* 2000 , Juliet Floyd & Hilary Putnam, The Journal of Philosophy — A Note on Wittgenstein’s “Notorious Paragraph” about the Godel Theorem , Vol. 97, ? 11:

They saw themselves as providing a freestanding “ideal language” or “concept-language,” what W. V. Quine has called a first-grade conceptual scheme, which in some sense supercedes ordinary language.

* 2002 , Amy Kapczynski, The Yale Law Journal — Queer Brinksmanship: Citizenship and the Solomon Wars , Vol. 112, ? 3:

The DoD may contend that the consolidated Solomon Amendment, passed in 1999, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 § 549, supercedes the regulations.

Usage notes

* The form (term) is commonly considered a misspelling of supersede, since it results from confusion between Latin , but the ‘c’ spelling began to be used in Middle French, appeared in [[w:English language, English] as early as the 1400s, and is still sometimes found. The fact that supersede is the only English word ending in (term), while several end in (term), also encourages confusion. * Most dictionaries do not include this spelling; a few list it as a variant, sometimes identified as a misspelling.“ supercede]” in the Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary . A search of general dictionaries at [http://www.onelook.com/ Onelook All Dictionaries finds 4 instances of "supercede" excluding this one (with one flagged as misspelling), and 24 of "supersede".

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Alternative forms

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Adjective

(-)

Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.

* Thomson

The dull sound previous to the storm, / Rolls o'er the muttering earth.

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He is no better than the previous Prime Minister.

(informal) Premature; occurring too soon.

I thought that I had solved the problem, but I was a bit previous .

Synonyms

* former * late * old * See also

Antonyms

* future * following * next * succeeding

Noun

(-)

(informal, UK) An existing criminal record; short for "previous convictions".

It turned out the shoplifter had a lot of previous .

* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

For that Smalling will have to do his time grazing in the scapegoat’s paddock because his contribution here supplied hard evidence of a player lacking the football intelligence that is needed at the highest level. He has previous on that front and it is difficult to find any mitigation for the way he scythed down James Milner when the first rule for a defender on a yellow card is not to dive in unless it is absolutely necessary.

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