Both Uses of
predecessor
in
Gulliver's Travels
- When it was found I could neither understand nor be understood, I was conducted by his order to an apartment in his palace (this prince being distinguished above all his predecessors for his hospitality to strangers), where two servants were appointed to attend me.†
Chpt 3 *predecessors = people who precede others in time
- The first is, by knowing how, with prudence, to dispose of a wife, a daughter, or a sister; the second, by betraying or undermining his predecessor; and the third is, by a furious zeal, in public assemblies, against the corruption's of the court.†
Chpt 4predecessor = one who precedes another in time
Definition:
one who precedes another in time -- such as the previous mayor relative to the current mayor