Definition of preceeding

(S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)

With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing , expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years , and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement , each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion , for this particular epiphysis .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

The boyhood summers preceding their uncle 's funeral might never have been .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

Now , you no_doubt regard the preceding as pap ; you 're tooling_around full of gage in your hot_rods , gorging yourselves on pizza and playing pinball in the taverns and generally behaving like Ubermenschen .