By THE NEW YORK TIMES. Twenty-seventh President of the United States and its tenth Chief Justice, William Howard Taft was the only man in the history of the country to become the head of both the Executive and Judicial Departments of the Federal Government.
Adj. 1. preceding-existing or coming before. antecedent-preceding in time or order. succeeding-coming after or following. previous-Preceding means occurring immediately before the time of the utterance, while previous means occurring at some time before the utterance..
Hardly is defined as barely, scarcely or not likely. An example of hardly used as an adverb is in the sentence, He was hardly helping us to complete the project, which means He was barely helping us to complete the project.. Now Rare with effort or difficulty.