43 collocations for antedating

I believe it has not been determined at what precise time this step was taken, but it no doubt long antedates the Norman conquest.

Mr. Paulding has already been taught by Judge Jay, that he who aspires to the fame of an oracle, without its inspiration, must resort to other expedients to prevent detection, than the clumsy one of antedating his responses.

He further stated what is undoubtedly true, that the main idea in the turret, that of a circular revolving fort, antedates the Nineteenth Century as a whole, and its origin is lost in the uncertainties of early tradition.

The earliest kings, those that built the pyramids, appear before us real in their personality, emerging out of misty legend or myth, and, earlier still, even the prehistoric races that antedated the very beginning of civilization.

It antedates Sir FREDERICK BANBURY'S brand of Toryism by several years.

A magnificent yew in the churchyard probably antedates the present church, and may have been contemporary with an earlier parish church of which all record has been lost.

They had traveled well beyond the city, past the straggling suburbs and the comfortable, friendly old villages, some of which antedated the city of which they were now the fringe, and had reached the wider sweeps of the prairie, with the fine country homes of those who sought privacy.

So that both of these colonies antedated the coming of the Pilgrims to Massachusetts in 1620.

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.

No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb.

Two Italian books compiled from the writings of Peter Martyr antedate the above edition of 1511.

Some claim that the first of the cave temples antedates the Christian era; others declare that the oldest was not begun for 300 years after Christ, but to the ordinary citizen these are questions of little significance.

The old font would seem to have originally belonged to another church, as its style antedates the foundation (1220) of St. Thomas' church.

Teddy's practicing, however, has now been carried on for several years in the teeth of no little peril; and, had it not been for much human influence employed on his behalf, he would long since have antedated his little friend in Paradise.

The dignity of mind, and the right of the individual to its conscious use and possession, had been already clearly enunciated by Fichte, Herder, and others, who antedated Goethe.

Since Bushido, like Aristotle and some modern sociologists, conceived the state as antedating the individualthe latter being born into the former as part and parcel thereofhe must live and die for it or for the incumbent of its legitimate authority.

The Elizabethan transmitters of these two Apician nuggets possibly antedated the popular institution of the bag-pudding; but the ancientest gastronomical records testify to the happy introduction of the frying-pan about the era when we were under Alfred's fatherly sway.

If we except some ecclesiastical writings, these fragments preserved by Moses of Chorene and others comprehend all that is left to us of the literature of Armenia antedating the Persian invasion.

I can't help thinking that he too far antedates the Bordeaux mixture!"

"Yes; our friendship antedates Mr. Ormsby; it is old enough to excuse anything you saidor were going to say.

But hints of that suspicion were clearly conveyed even in the first edition of this volume, which, it may be recalled, antedates the outbreak of the great European War.

Like most of the Italian poets of this century, Aleardi found his chief inspiration in the exciting events that marked the struggle of Italy for independence, and his best work antedated the peace of Villafranca.

Footnote 210: For various other collections of songs and ballads, antedating Percy's, see Phelps's Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement, ch.

The isolation of active principles long antedated the synthetical preparations, but the latter came at lastthe marvellous array of hypnotics, anodynes, and fever-quellers that are now at our command, largely coal-tar products.

As I rest poised upon the oars above some submerged shallow, diamonded with ripple-broken sunbeams, the fantastic Notonecta or water-boatman rests upon his oars below, and I see that his proportions anticipated the wherry, as honeycombs antedated the problem of the hexagonal cell.

43 collocations for  antedating