Word Meanings - PREAUDIENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers. Blackstone.

PRECEDENCE; PRECEDENCY
1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior
AMONG; AMONGST
among, AS. onmang, ongemang, gemang, in a crowd or mixture. For the 1. Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton. 2. Conjoined, or associated with, or making part