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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of antedate.

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Examples

  • This title antedated the adoption of the Articles of

    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Jefferson Davis 1848

  • 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 Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • 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 David R. George III 2011

  • 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 David R. George III 2011

  • 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 David R. George III 2011

  • He had antedated Sullivan, in the old London Prize Ring Rules, though his last fading battles had been put up under the incoming Marquis of Queensbury Rules.

    Chapter I 2010

  • 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 David R. George III 2011

  • 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 David R. George III 2011

  • 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 David R. George III 2011

  • Jack McQuestion antedated him; but they had entered the land by crossing the Rockies from the Hudson Bay country to the east.

    Chapter 1 2010

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