noun the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone.
noun the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony).
— synonyms: precedence, precedency
Examples
“But as it will not do to talk entirely at random, as Montaigne does, and Ralph Waldo Emerson tries to do, we must take up some little thread or threads. and string our thoughts thereupon, keeping up also a relation among them of precession and succession.”