Anagrams of: PRECEDENTIAL

• belittle

• lower the value of something

• lose in value

• an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time

• (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions

• a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws

• a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)

• preceding in time, order, or significance

• chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

• (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total

• (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula

• one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements

• make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition

• affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of

• involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic

• express strong disapproval of; deplore

• belittle