antedated
Meaning
of Antedate
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PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation.... Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
Almost certainly, peanut cultivation antedated this at the center of origin where the climate is moister.
Moses I. Finley observes citation "this typical bit of fiction must mean that there was an old Theban hero Hector, a Greek, whose myths antedated the Homeric poems.
On second thought, the politicization of words (and consequently, thoughts) truly is regressive, bringing Homo sapiens back to the time when grunts preceded words, and violence antedated rational communication.
It does not exclude the possibility that unrecognized glucose intolerance may have antedated or begun concomitantly with the pregnancy.
Many of the visual jokes antedated by many years similar ones used by Hanna-Barbera in the Flintstones series.