8 examples of ante-dated in sentences

One of our corps of Philosophers (a trifle visionary, perhaps) has been speculating as to certain possible (or, perhaps, impossible) results flowing from the practice among publishers of ante-dating their monthly issues.

He was given the opportunity of ante-dating the introduction of technique into the English prose short-story by four hundred and fifty years, and he disregarded it almost cavalierly.

This was Lamb's acrostic-epitaph on Mrs. Williams: Grace Joanna here doth lie: Reader, wonder not that I Ante-date her hour of rest.

This inquisitiveness had, at every town which I reached, made the search for newspapers uppermost in my mind; but, by bad luck, I had found only four, all of them ante-dated to the one which I had read at Dover, though their dates gave me some idea of the period when printing must have ceased, viz.

ACROSTIC, TO A LADY WHO DESIRED ME TO WRITE HER EPITAPH (1830) Grace Joanna here doth lie: Reader, wonder not that I Ante-date her hour of rest.

3. ANTE means Fore, or Before: as, ante-past, a fore-taste; ante-cedent, foregoing, or going before; ante-mundane, before the world; ante-date, to date before.

It is to the credit of the Irishman, William Bathe (who subsequently became a Jesuit), that he wrote the first printed English treatise on music, published in 1584thus ante-dating by thirteen years Morley's work.

Allusion has already been made to the growing practice in Venetian art of introducing the hand as a significant feature in portrait painting, and here we get the earliest indications of this tendency in Giorgione; for this portrait certainly ante-dates the "Knight of Malta."

8 examples of  ante-dated  in sentences