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Example sentences for "antedating"

Lexicographically close words:
antechambers; antechapel; antedate; antedated; antedates; antediluvian; antediluvians; antehac; antelope; antelopes
  1. This discovery, antedating by eight years the work on the relation of the mosquito to malaria, had a very great influence on subsequent studies along these lines.

  2. It should be noted that on examining the original, it is found that Gottfried's figure relates to an event antedating the typical epidemic of dancing mania.

  3. The explanation of the origin of these customs is to be found in practices long antedating the time of St. Martin or St. Nicholas or even of St. Andrew.

  4. It was for many years a principal center of civilization in the province, the settlement antedating the founding of Los Angeles by several years.

  5. Tradition tells us that Trincomalee was founded by a colony of Malabars, many centuries before Christ, antedating all authentic records relating to the island.

  6. One of these peculiar structures was originally over four hundred feet in height, antedating the Christian era by many years.

  7. His conclusion is that they are “true drift implements, fashioned and used by a people far antedating the people who subsequently occupied this same territory.

  8. It varies in depth from four to twenty feet, and rests on an old gravel of an origin antedating the river gravels that contain palæolithic implements.

  9. There are various references antedating 1526 in this and the following legajo.

  10. In the Islands about Santorin, remains of houses antedating 1500 B.

  11. The term "all my fortunes" certainly implies a connection between them antedating Florio's sixty-fourth year.

  12. But have these simple categories no independent historical or natural existence antedating the more concrete ones?

  13. To the single individual distribution naturally appears as a law established by society determining his position in the sphere of production, within which he produces, and thus antedating production.

  14. Evidences of a Rude Industry Antedating the Paleolithic.

  15. Moreover lamps with seven branches were kept burning before it, these seven branched lamps long antedating the golden candlestick of the Mosaic Tabernacle.

  16. Records of Purchase Meeting of the Society of Friends for the period antedating 1770.

  17. The forms of the letters and the numerous ligatures point to a comparatively early period, perhaps antedating the reign of Augustus.

  18. The measurements of buildings in the Roman Period conform to the scale of the Roman foot, while the dimensions of structures antedating the Roman colony in most cases reduce to the scale of the Oscan or old Italic foot.

  19. This side of the kiva is blackened by smoke antedating the construction of the room.

  20. It is interesting to find Mrs. Collyer, not only antedating him, but excelling him in accuracy and fullness.

  21. Everywhere over the earth, entombed beneath the feet of the living, or crumbling on the surface, are the few relics of a past far antedating the relics of Pompeii.

  22. In whatever land we commence our investigations, we quickly come upon the evidences of an ancient life long antedating all historical information.

  23. We have underneath the lava flow of California the gravel beds of rivers far antedating the gravels of the Somme.

  24. Man then existed in a state of high civilisation at a period antedating the Christian era by about twice the length of time formerly admitted for the age of earth itself.

  25. It is the oldest known legal code in existence, antedating the Mosaic code by at least a thousand years, and older than the laws of Manu.

  26. The underlying norms of taste are of very ancient growth, probably far antedating the advent of the pecuniary institutions that are here under discussion.

  27. But already at a point in economic evolution far antedating the emergence of the lady, specialised consumption of goods as an evidence of pecuniary strength had begun to work out in a more or less elaborate system.

  28. The chief factor in the gambling habit is the belief in luck; and this belief is apparently traceable, at least in its elements, to a stage in human evolution antedating the predatory culture.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antedating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anachronism; anticipation; earliness; lateness; precedence; tardiness