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..
foreÂ·stalled, foreÂ·stallÂ·ing, foreÂ·stalls. 1  a. To delay, hinder, or prevent (an event, for example) by taking action beforehand: ârehabilitative care, where the goal is not so much to cure disease as it is to forestall further declineâ ( George Anders ) See Synonyms at prevent. b.