Precede 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 34
/prɪˈsiːd/ (verb)
to come first, come before, be higher in rank or importance, be prior to, introduce, lead, usher in, go first, go before, pave the way, head
Described as one of the most dramatically appealing English operas, the opera in two acts has a prologue and sixteen scenes, each preceded by a variation on the twelve-note ‘Typically of Britten, the music mixes tonality and dissonance, with Britten’s recurrent use of a twelve-tone figure being perhaps a nod to the approach of Arnold Schoenberg. Thematically, the play gives a central role to a line borrowed from W. B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming”: “The ceremony of innocence is drowned.”
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Antonym: follow
Adjective: preceding
Adjective: Precedent
Noun: precedence
Noun: precedent
