Ascendancy or preponderance.
Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree.
To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
Special eminence.
To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land.
The right or act of purchasing before others.
To preoccupy.
To settle or arrange beforehand.
To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else.
Existence antecedent to something.