Meanings of antecessor in English

This, then, is their horrid counsel and device-thateach one of their gods should kill his antecessor.

One suggestion is that they were a species called Homo antecessor, which was known to have lived in southern Europe.

The hominid has been identified as homo antecessor, or pioneer man, a possible ancestor of both our own species and Neanderthals.

The former holder is marked by the perfectly colourless word "ancestor" ("antecessor"), a word as yet meaning, not "forefather," but "predecessor" of any kind.

Antecessor then gave them a horn, with some salve in it, wherewith they anointed themselves.

He told her that she must be married first, & the Queen said she was married to Antecessor.