antecessor

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person or thing that precedes or goes before.

   “1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57, […] the Waldenses[,] Antecessors of the Protestants”

2. isim A person from whom one is descended.

   “[…] some, hath iudged wrongfully As in reproche, of our country Deniyng playne, moste noble Brute Our antecessor our stocke and our frute.”