set a precedent

:  to cause to sit :  place in or on a seat

:  to put (a fowl) on eggs to hatch them

:  to put (eggs) for hatching under a fowl or into an incubator

:  the act or action of setting

:  the condition of being set

:  a number of things of the same kind that belong or are used together

:  intent, determined

:  intentional, premeditated

:  fixed by authority or appointment :  prescribed, specified

:  prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance

:  an earlier occurrence of something similar

:  something done or said that may serve as an example or rule to authorize or justify a subsequent act of the same or an analogous kind

:  the convention established by such a precedent or by long practice