antedate

How To Use antedate In A Sentence

• Let us try to forethink, to antedate our forgiveness. Unspoken Sermons Third Series
• Its name and recognition long antedated this botanist.
• In two grand, characteristic attributes, it is supereminent over all others: first in its universality, for it is capacious enough to receive and cherish in its paternal bosom every child that comes into the world: and second, in the timeliness of the aid it proffers, - its early, seasonable supplies of counsel and guidance making security antedate danger.
• All of the stone circles, menhirs, dolmens, etc., of the British Isles were constructed by peoples who antedated the Celts by one to three thousand years.
• The use of carriageways constructed of two layers of stone broken to different dimensions antedates the construction of Telford's government roads from London to Holyhead and in the environs of Glasgow and Lanarkshire.
• This appears convincing since the decline in mortality rates antedated for the most part the advent of efficacious pills and surgical procedures.
• Four subjects had a history of asthma, but the condition antedated their employment in the facility.
• It is unlikely, too, that improving survival chances of infants promoted a desire to reduce completed family size, since the fertility decline appears to have antedated the fall in infant mortality.
• The ancient manuscript—it antedated the city itself—identified their daughter as the “Infant Avatar,” whose birth would usher in a new age for Bajor. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
• There is good evidence to suggest that Numenius antedates Atticus, whose floruit is set around 176 (Eusebius, Chronicle, p. 207 Helm): Proclus in his 5th-c. Numenius