precedency
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is the first Peer of the Realm, and has precedency immediately after the blood royal.
From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by E. E. Holmes
Sheriff, his precedency over the lord lieutenant, 394.
From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 5, January-June, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by George Bell
The greatest age demands respect and precedency; and, as Venovali is the oldest, we will dispatch him first.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
One of the most honourable privileges granted to the Athletic victors, was the right of precedency at the public games.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
At the Hampton entertainment, and at the masque there were some disputes about precedency, says John Chamberlain in another letter.
From Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories by Edward E. Hale
This poor Congress—-let the reader fancy it—spent two years in "arguments about precedencies," in mere beatings of the air; could not get seated at all, but wandered among the chairs, till "February, 1724."
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle
It seems that the Kandyans and we reciprocally misunderstood the ranks, orders, precedencies, titular distinctions, and external honours attached to them in our several nations.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
