predecessor

As nouns the difference between predecessor and gittern

is that predecessor is one who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position while gittern is a relatively small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, a predecessor of the guitar, that originated around the 13th century and came to Europe via Moorish Spain.

As a verb gittern is

to play on the gittern.

As nouns the difference between predecessor and baianism

is that predecessor is one who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position while Baianism is a school of thought, the immediate historical predecessor of Jansenism, that claimed thorough Augustinianism over the scholasticism which held sway over most Catholic theologians at the time.

As nouns the difference between predecessor and lofter

is that predecessor is one who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position while lofter is (label) an obsolete golf club, the predecessor of the niblick.