Usage examples "precedent":
- It looks into the future with eyes that see visions, and stretches forward to that future with hands that are creative; an institution with no past but only a present and an idea, not acting by precedent or tradition but taking its inspiration straight from life's sources. - "A Tramp's Sketches", Stephen Graham.
- In fact, Alison was not seriously uneasy about Ermine's health, for these nervous attacks were not without precedent, as the revenge for all excitement of the sensitive mind upon the much- tried constitution. - "The Clever Woman of the Family", Charlotte M. Yonge.
- We may have a man of very different character, and what we are doing to- day will become a precedent upon which he will act. - "The Life of Lyman Trumbull", Horace White.
