Had circumstances only permitted, the new epoch in biological teaching might have been antedated by many years.
My dear Foster, My wife and I send you our hearty good wishes (antedated by four days).
Although rushlights antedated candles, some of the holders were made to answer a dual purpose, and on the same stem or slide as the rushlight holder there was a candle socket, an important feature fully exemplified in Figs.
No doubt the crock antedated the bronze pot, which was at first made of metal plates hammered and beaten into shape, and then riveted together.
It seems probable that in these pictures, which are found only on two monuments at Quirigua and on one at Copan[13], we have a survival of a form of writing which antedated the more conventional hieroglyphs.
Margaret Brent antedated Abigail Adams by over a century.
It is only the record of a theory offered to explain a fact--which antedated both the theory and the record.
As a matter of actual and chronological fact the Commission to Belgium antedated the coming of the first Red Cross party to France.
Alexander was probably the greatest by reason of the magnitude of his transactions, but he was antedated by Jacob Strawn, who located in Morgan County in 1827.
These statements are not made with reference to the establishment of the United States of America as a free and independent nation, but to events that antedated by nearly a century the birth of Christ.
Plainly this battle antedated the beginning of human history, for the dragon or Satan had not then been expelled from heaven, and at the time of his first recorded activity among mortals he was a fallen being.
Active demand for a reformation of the conditions that have been described antedated the nineteenth century.
In point of fact, by reason principally of the growing unwieldiness of the Privy Council, the practice of deferring for advice to a specially constituted committee, or inner circle, of the body far antedated Charles II.
The “French and Indian wars” with which the American settlers had to contend in the early history of the colonies long antedated the Revolution, and massacres were instigated by French policy of conquest and retaliation.
And it came with particularly bad grace from this section, which longantedated the South in measures designed to embarrass and disrupt the Union.
Its creation in the first instance has commonly been attributed to Richelieu, but it really antedated the coming of the great cardinal.
Historians have commonly attributed to Richelieu the genesis of New World feudalism, but without good reason, for its beginningsantedated the time of the great minister.
It was the coming of the internal combustion engine that rendered flight practicable, and had this prime mover been available in John Stringfellow's day the Wright brothers' achievement might have been antedated by half a century.
Francesco Lana, who antedated Borelli's publication of De Motu Animalium by some ten years with his suggestion for an 'aerial ship,' as he called it.
This may also possibly have antedated the Phoenician period.
It was antedated a few months by the post of the North-west Company at the entrance of the Little Spokane into the Spokane, near the present site of the City of Spokane.
Indeed their study, much of whichantedated the Truman order, represented the solution of the Air Force's manpower experts to a pressing problem in military efficiency.
Are we, then, driven to the opinion that even though Magic should have antedated Religion and been often combined with it in common undertakings, it has, nevertheless, contributed in no way to the establishment of Religion?
It antedated the human species, and appears to this day first in the young animal, as well as in the infant.
Our conclusions are, so far, that Magic has had an independent origin, that it very probably antedated Religion, and that they associate for common purposes without ever fusing, for they are referable to different principles.
Supplies from the plantations of Torontoy, lower down the river, might have reached it along the path whichantedated the present government road.
Yet above the wall and flush with its surface the bank appeared to consist of stratified gravel, indicating that the wall antedated the gravel deposits.
The establishment of St. Augustine's Church, however, somewhat antedated this.
On being safely landed, Jonah attached himself to one of the tribes that peopled the barrens, and left a white progeny which antedated Columbus's arrival by several centuries.
But while in some cases the legend has been made to fit the place, there is no doubt that in many instances the story antedated the arrival of the white men.
This antedated the alien and sedition measures, but not the appointment of Samuel Jones, making his conversion contemporary with the candidacy for governor of Chancellor Livingston, to whom he was related.
Up to this time, the courts of the State, in part, antedated the War of Independence.
They foresaw the inevitable end, though they antedated by several years the actual catastrophe.
But though thus antedated in his exploit, Santos-Dumont did in fact accomplish more for the advancement and development of dirigible balloons.
Although the electric motor of to-day depends for practical value entirely upon the dynamo which supplies it with electric power, nevertheless the motor considerably antedated the dynamo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antedated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anachronistic; beforehand; behindhand; dated; early; late; overdue; tardy; unseasonable
