All 3 Uses of
precede
in
A Passage to India
- What did it matter if a few flabby Hindus had preceded him there, and a few chilly English succeeded?†
Chpt 2 *preceded = went or was before
- Their chairs preceded them into the Court, for it was important that they should look dignified.†
Chpt 24
- Presently the moon rose—the exhausted crescent that precedes the sun—and shortly after men and oxen began their interminable labour, and the gracious interlude, which he had tried to curtail, came to its natural conclusion.†
Chpt 27precedes = goes, does, or is before
Definition:
to go or do before