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  • adjective Being before the time of Moses.

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  • adjective Before the time of Moses.

Etymologies

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ante- +‎ Mosaic

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Examples

  • I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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  • Before the time of Moses.

    May 11, 2008

  • I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.

    - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 104

    July 31, 2008