-cede, -ceed, -cess, -cease +

1. Relating to continuing something without pausing or not interrupting a process or procedure.
2. In an incessant manner; not ceasing or stopping.

1. To plead with someone in authority on behalf of somebody else; especially, a person who is to be punished for something.
2. To speak in support of someone involved in a dispute.
3. To attempt to settle or to reconcile a dispute between other people; to mediate.

1. The act of intervening; such as, to mediate a dispute.
2. The action of pleading on someone's behalf.
3. The action of attempt to settle a dispute.
4. A prayer to God, a god, or a saint on behalf of another person or something.

Years, as they come, bring blessings in their train;
Years, as they go, take blessings back again.

From Horace, De Arte Poetica (20 B.C.).

A reference to a computer system that allows several users to gain access to it at the same time.

1. Important in order to achieve a specific result, or desired by authority or convention: "It is necessary that we let the local authorities know that the sewer cover on the street is missing."
2. Inevitable according to what has happened previously: "The authorities will no doubt find it necessary to replace the sewer cover immediately."
3. Being essential, indispensable, or a requirement.
4. Etymology: from Latin necessarius, from necesse, "unavoidable, indispensable"; originally, "no backing away" from ne-, "not" + cedere, "to withdraw, to go away, to yield".

Not always will the flowers bloom; season succeeds season. -Cicero.

1. To come, go, be, or happen before someone or something else in time, position, or importance.
2. To say or to do something before something else.
3. To come before in order or rank; to surpass or to outrank.
4. To be in a position in front of; to go in advance of; such as, to precede someone else into a room is to go before that person.
5. To preface; to introduce: "The author preceded her lecture with a funny anecdote."

1. A status established in order of importance or urgency.
2. A relative importance in rank and status that determines something; such as, the order in which participants are placed in a formal situation.
3. The right or need to be dealt with before someone or something else or to be treated as more important than somebody or something else.
4. The fact of being more important than others.

1. A previous act or instance that may be used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances.
2. In law, a judicial decision that may be used as a standard in subsequent similar cases.
3. A convention or custom arising from long practice.
4. An example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time.
5. Etymology: "to go before" in rank or importance, from Modern French preceder, from Latin pręcedere, "to go before" from prę-, "before" + cedere, "to go".

1. Serving as a guide.
2. Priority in place, time, or rank.
3. The ceremonial order observed by people of different ranks on formal occasions.

1. Coming, going, existing, or happening immediately before someone or something else; earlier, foregoing.
2. That which has been mentioned before.

1. The act or fact of preceding; precedence.
2. In astronomy: the slow, conical motion of the earth's axis of rotation, caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon, and, to a smaller extent, of the planets, on the equatorial bulge of the earth.

In certain contexts, "precession" may refer to the precession that the Earth experiences, the effects of this type of precession on astronomical observation, or to the precession of orbital objects.

To die before another person.

1. Someone who precedes another person in time; such as, in holding a position or office.
2. Something previously in use or existence that has been replaced or succeeded by something else.
3. Something succeeded or replaced by something else.