Antecessor

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An ancestor; a progenitor.

II. Antecessor ·noun One who goes before; a predecessor.

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antecessor
antĕcessor, ōris, m. [antecedo], he that goes before; hence, I In milit. lang., antecessores, the...

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