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Antecede   Listen
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Antecede  v. t. & v. i.  To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.





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"Antecede" Quotes from Famous Books



... must be carried back to a date earlier than that at which our ingenuous youth is instructed that the earth came into existence. For, the alluvial deposit having been brought down by the rivers, they must needs be older than the plain it forms, as navvies must needs antecede the embankment painfully built up by the contents of their wheel-barrows. For thousands of years, heat and cold, rain, snow, and frost, the scrubbing of glaciers, and the scouring of torrents laden with sand and gravel, have been wearing down the rocks of the upper basins ...
— Hasisadra's Adventure - Essay #7 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" • Thomas Henry Huxley
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Words linked to "Antecede" :   antecedence, predate, precede, forego, antecedent, antedate, forgo


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