معنای فرهنگ لغت "سابقه" یک رویداد یا اقدام قبلی است که به عنوان نمونه یا راهنمایی در نظر گرفته می شود که در شرایط مشابه در نظر گرفته می شود. همچنین می تواند به یک تصمیم قانونی یا اشاره کند
It appeared to me to be a thing impossible and contrary to all precedent that so good a knight should have been without some sage to undertake the task of writing his marvellous achievements a thing that was never wanting to any of those knights-errant who, they say, went after adventures for every one of them had one or two sages as if made on purpose, who not only recorded their deeds but described their most trifling thoughts and follies, however secret they might be and such a good knight could not have been so unfortunate as not to have what Platir and others like him had in abundance.
If the higher races could now mate with each other as well, that changed every precedent.
Its reception into the Union was a precedent which may have far-reaching effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold alliance to the Stars and Stripes.
Furthermore, they have ruled that mandatory testing sets a dangerous precedent for infringing upon those selfsame rights.
