Originally the Dijon crypt opened westward on a crypt now lost--the basement for a Latin cross church--and where that juncture occurred are vestiges of buildings that antedate the actual crypt.
It is true that they antedate the dedication of St. Denis, but not by a few Romanesque vestiges can Sens substantiate its claim to be the first built of Gothic cathedrals.
No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb.
Henceforth beware, nor antedate thy doom, Defrauding fate of all thy fame to come.
The most fundamental of the administrative divisions of France, and the only one whose origins antedate the Revolution, is the commune.
These recall somewhat similar groups one sees in the wilds of continental India, mementos which are believed to antedate by ten or fifteen centuries the origin of the famous "buried cities" of Ceylon.
At Dondra Head, which is now only a small fishing village, the mouldering remains of a grand and ancient temple are seen, which are believed to antedate those of Anuradhapura, though probably built by the same race of people.
But among these South Sea Islands are prehistoric ruins and monuments which are believed to antedate the Sphinx.
We have seen in the Boulak Museum at Cairo objects of Egyptian make which were doubtless six thousand years old; and the Sphinx, situated ten miles away, where the city of Gizeh once stood, must antedate that period.
The Southern Alps, as the range which runs north and south through New Zealand is called, are believed to antedate the Alps of Europe, while nowhere else is marked evidence of glacial action more clearly defined.
I should also like to point out that the essays in their psychological phases are written from the standpoint of what is now termed a behavioristic psychology, though some of them antedate the use of that term as a descriptive epithet.
If demons, fetishes, and the animal or human ancestors worshipped in cult antedate gods, the latter must have developed from the former.
In this form, however, human sacrifice does not antedate animal sacrifice, as has been believed, but follows upon it.
In their original forms, they are allied to far more primitive phenomena, such as antedate both religious art and even religion itself, in the true sense of the word.
These habits are later in development than some of the personal virtues, but long antedate the differentiation of man from the other animals.
But there comes a deeper breath to the man who realizes that morality and religion long antedate the Jewish revelation, and comes to see God in the tens and hundreds of thousands of years of slow but splendid human progress.
Among men, punishments for the immoral and outward honors for the virtuous antedate history.
Many of these remains are of such remote antiquity as to long antedate our glass, but nevertheless we must not be so prejudiced as to neglect them when encountered on our travels.
Although a great deal of restoration is noticeable in this window, the strongly brassy tone of the canopies in the three outer lancets on each side clearly indicate that they antedate the discovery of yellow stain.
Most of our data antedate him, or were contemporaneous with him, or were as accessible to him as to us.
Tendency of the pupil nations surrounding China to antedatetheir civilization.
For many myths antedate the scriptural narratives of which they are said to be copies; many more, though resembling the scriptural stories, originated among peoples ignorant of the Hebrew Bible.
English pewter dates back as far as the tenth century, though few pieces are now in existence that antedate the seventeenth century.
The ground around is entirely free of growth except for grass and a few weeds, which may explain its appearance of newness; it has a very modern aspect, though it seems to antedate the discovery.
No examination of a cavern is complete or is to be deemed satisfactory unless a depth is reached where the geological deposits are undeniably of such age as to antedate the possible appearance of man upon the scene.
They rest in *nature and antedateall creeds and churches, and will survive them.
But not only do the laws of Egypt antedate the laws accredited to Moses, but the Hindoos had laws which were yet more ancient.
These are very serious complications, whether theyantedate the fever or have occurred in its course.
The nephritis and consequent albuminuria antedate by some days the occurrence of dropsy, and a physician should never discharge a scarlatinous patient without one or more examinations of his urine.
The customs associated with St. Nicholas in their origin doubtless antedate Christianity but also antedate the worship of Odin.
In the seventeenth century some authors wished to substantiate the story of Prince Madoc, in order that the British claim to America should antedate the Spanish claim through Columbus.
Washington Irving (in his Life of Columbus) explains the book by a desire to appeal to the national pride of Italy, since, if true, the discovery of the brothers wouldantedate that of Columbus by a century.
I have no leisure thus to antedate The coming woe, Nor to-day darken with to-morrow's fate; And so I go.
The great number of terraced figures and their use in the representation of animals seem to me to indicate that they antedate all others, and I see no reason why they should not have been derived from basketry patterns.
With the exception of Oraibi, not one of the present inhabited pueblos of Tusayan occupies the site on which it stood in the sixteenth century, and the majority of them do not antedate the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Many similar ruins are found throughout this vicinity, yet but little more is known of them than that they antedate the advent of white men.
I knew enough to be silent at first; this is something that I have learned from animals: there are sympathies, understandings, that antedate words.
There are ruins here and in Yucatan which antedate by centuries anything of recorded history relating to the British Isles.
These articles are reputed to antedatethe Toltec period, though the natives, finding that the antique shapes are most popular with European and American tourists, imitate them very closely.
