precedential

Adjective

Open English WordNet

Adjective (1)

  1. having precedence (especially because of longer service)“precedential treatment for senior members of the firm”Opposite juniorSimilar senior
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Prec′e·den′tial adjective

Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions.

All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity.— Thomas Fuller

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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