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Meanings of precedented in English

Having or supported or justified by a precedent.

        Usage of precedented in English
        1
        As I read somewhere yesterday, you would miss the precedented times.
        Independent.ie
        2
        Of course, we must avoid any return to primogeniture-orfirstborn inheritance-nomatter how precedented!
        Existence
        3
        John Bruton had scaled on precedented heights of popularity.
        The Irish Times
        4
        And yet, as this litany suggests, Trump's substantive betrayals of democratic ideals are far more precedented than his rhetorical ones.
        NY Magazine
        5
        We concluded dinner would be called for, it not being Very precedented for ladies to wait for gentlemen:-nosuch thing.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
        Precedented through the time