Both Uses of
precede
in
Ethan Frome
- The entertainment of which he spoke was one of the few that they had taken part in together: a "church picnic" which, on a long afternoon of the preceding summer, had filled the retired place with merry-making.†
Chpt 9
- He bent down, feeling in the obscurity for the glassy slide worn by preceding coasters, and placed the runners carefully between its edges.†
Chpt 9 *
Definition:
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(precede) to go or do before