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..
2. 'continual' and 'continuous'. Continual is usually used to describe something that happens often over a period of time. If something is continuous, it happens all the time without stopping, or seems to do so. For example, if you say 'There was continual rain', you mean that it rained often.