Chapter Words Expressing Abstract Relations of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

Irreducible.

2°. Consecutive Order

• Precedence (Substantives), coming before, antecedence, priority, anteriority, antecedency, the pas, the lead.

Superiority 33, precession 280.

(Verbs). To precede, come before, lead, introduce, usher in.

(Phrases). To have the pas; to take the lead; to get the start; set the fashion; to get before.

To place before; to prefix, affix, premise, prelude, preface, prologise.

To prepare 673.

(Adjectives). Preceding, precedent, antecedent, anterior, prior, previous, before, ahead of, leading.

Former, foregoing; coming or going before; precursory, pre-cursive, prevenient, preliminary, prefatory, introductory, prelusive, prelusory, proemial, preparatory, preambulatory.

(Adverbs). In advance, ahead, etc., in front of, before, in the van, see 234.

• Sequence (Substantives) coming after, consecution, succession, posteriority, secondariness.

Runner-up.

(Phrase). Proxime accessit.

Continuation, order of succession, successiveness.

Subordination, inferiority 34.

Alternation 138.

(Verbs). To succeed, come after, follow, come next, ensue, come on, tread close upon; to alternate.

(Phrases). To be in the wake or trail of; to tread on the heels of; to step into the shoes of; to play second fiddle to.

To place after, to suffix, append.

Adjectives). Succeeding, coming after, following, subsequent, ensuing, sequent, sequacious, consequent, next; consecutive; alternate 138.

Latter, posterior.

(Adverbs). After, subsequently, since, behind, in the wake of, in the train of, at the tail of, in the rear of, see 235.

• Precursor (Substantives), antecedent, predecessor, forerunner, pioneer, outrider, avant-courier, leader, bell-wether, harbinger.

Prelude, preamble, preface, foreword, prologue, avant-propos, protasis, prolusion, preludium, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction, note, advertisement, frontispiece, groundwork 673.

(Adjectives). See 62.