anteceded

“Did you ever know a French novelist have a premeditated murder committed by a man who could not possibly have conceived the murder ten minutes before he committed it; with whom the cause of the murder anteceded the murder no more than ten minutes?”

Phineas Redux 2004

For example, Lao-Tzu uses the word “Tao” to denote the invisible, formless, nothing and nonbeing, which to him represented the “way” that anteceded the world and even Ti, the supreme god of the Chinese.

JUSTICE MORRIS D. FORKOSCH 1968

From an attention to the gospel history, we are induced to believe that the celebration of that ordinance constituted a part of the common duties of every Lord's day, while the apostles ministered in the Christian church; + and that an attendance at the sacramental table, was not distinguished by any special preparatory exercises, diverse from those which anteceded other sanctuary duties.

Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee

London; the ten years from twenty-one to thirty-one in Paris; eleven years of hard writing in London, years comparatively lean after those of luxury that anteceded them, brought Mr. Moore at forty-two to a knowledge of what was beautiful and significant in his home country.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

Had he been displeasing in her eyes, she would, one may rely upon it, have anteceded the behaviour in similar case of her descendant of to-day -- that is to say, have expressed resentment in no uncertain terms.

Tommy and Co. 1893

"Did you ever know a French novelist have a premeditated murder committed by a man who could not possibly have conceived the murder ten minutes before he committed it; with whom the cause of the murder anteceded the murder no more than ten minutes?"

Phineas Redux 1873

"Did you ever know a French novelist have a premeditated murder committed by a man who could not possibly have conceived the murder ten minutes before he committed it; -- with whom the cause of the murder anteceded the murder no more than ten minutes?"

Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848

Most important is the fact that, since biological evolution was anteceded by these three levels, it became a prisoner of these previous evolutions.

ScreenTalk 2009

Most important is the fact that, since biological evolution was anteceded by these three levels, it became a prisoner of these previous evolutions.

ScreenTalk 2009

Most important is the fact that, since biological evolution was anteceded by these three levels, it became a prisoner of these previous evolutions.

Darwiniana 2008