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Predecease

verb
1.
Die before; die earlier than.





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"Predecease" Quotes from Famous Books



... the light of a melancholy candle, drew out and set before him an envelope addressed by the hand and sealed with the seal of his dead friend. "PRIVATE: for the hands of G. J. Utterson ALONE and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread," so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents. "I have buried one friend to-day," he thought: "what if this should cost me another?" And then he condemned the fear ...
— Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
... and Grace Magor to declare to all the parish. I choose to defer making it public, in tenderness, while they live: for all things point as yet to the permanent saving of their souls. But, as in the course of nature I shall predecease them, I set the record here in the Parish Register, as its ...
— News from the Duchy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


Words linked to "Predecease" :   buy the farm, cash in one's chips, snuff it, pass away, pass, go, pop off, conk, croak, exit, drop dead, die, expire, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, perish, decease, choke


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