precedent (n.)
- action
- ancestor
- announcer
- antecedent
- anterior
- antitype
- archetype
- avant-garde
- award
- bellwether
- biotype
- buccinator
- bushwhacker
- condemnation
- consideration
- criterion
- decision
- decree
- deliverance
- determination
- diagnosis
- dictum
- doom
- epitome
- example
- exemplar
- explorer
- finding
- forebear
- forerunner
- former
- frontiersman
- fugleman
- genotype
- groundbreaker
- guide
- harbinger
- herald
- innovator
- lead
- leader
- messenger
- mirror
- model
- order
- original
- paradigm
- past
- pathfinder
- pattern
- pioneer
- point
- precursor
- predecessor
- premise
- prior
- prognosis
- pronouncement
- prototype
- representative
- resolution
- rule
- ruling
- scout
- sentence
- standard
- trailblazer
- type
- vanguard
- verdict
- yardstick
precedent (adj.)
Mastering the lawless science of our law,—
That codeless myriad of precedent,
That wilderness of single instances.
A precedent embalms a principle.
His deeds inimitable, like the sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.
