antedate

• They who have received my anatomy of myself consult, and end their consultation in prescribing, and in prescribing physic; proper and convenient remedy; for if they should come in again and chide me for some disorder that had occasioned and induced, or that had hastened and exalted this sickness, or if they should begin to write now rules for my diet and exercise when I were well, this were to antedate or to postdate their consultation, not to give physic. —  Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
• Darwin in his "Descent of Man" showed that the gregarious and social traits that make associated life possible antedate, not only the division of society into classes, but even antedate humanity itself, since they plainly appear in the so-called lower animals So that my contention that morality only came into being with the division of society into classes and will pass away when class divisions are abolished, becomes a question of definition. —  Socialism: Positive and Negative
• *--The origins of the local governmental régime prevailing in the kingdom of Prussia to-day antedate, to some extent, the nineteenth century, but in large part they are to be traced to the period of the Stein-Hardenberg ministries. —  The Governments of Europe
• They antedate the titles under which Rawson claims. —  Gordon Keith
• This is to renew, to antedate, the youth of a majority of the living generation. —  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850

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