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