præcede

Verb

 * 1) * 1609, a work quoted in 1980 by Mary Chan in Music in the Theatre of Ben Jonson (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0‒19‒812632‒8, 978‒0‒19‒812632‒4), page 190:
 * [The Queen] commaunded [Jonson] to think on some Daunce, or shew, that might præcede hers, and haue the place of a foyle, or false-Masque.
 * [The Queen] commaunded [Jonson] to think on some Daunce, or shew, that might præcede hers, and haue the place of a foyle, or false-Masque.