antedate

How To Use antedate In A Sentence

• The novel is a grotesque exploration of fetishism which antedates Freud.
• The lion passant guardant appears in various places; the renderings of it in the Palatine Chapel completed before 1143 antedate this symbol's presumed use by the King of England.
• Personally, he was inclined to admire -- and frankly to admit it -- the ability which had brought Burr into prominence from a position of evident obscurity, while he regarded Mrs. Webb's eccentric attitude as a kind of antedated comedy. The Voice of the People
• But these antedate the rise of muscular Christianity.
• Given the fact that the British road network largely antedates the highway authorities themselves, the court is not in a position to say what the appropriate standard of improvement would be.
• Moreover, the book treats the emergence of modern advertising, not advertising, whose history antedates the author's period of study.
• 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.
• This event antedates the discovery of America by several centuries.
• Those words all antedate the arrival of Europeans - and anthropological classifications.
• The convention of extralegality for a just cause antedates the advent of hard-boiled heroes.