"Antedate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it has been said that the language of flowers is as old as the days of Adam; having, also, thousands of years ago, existed in the Indian, Egyptian, and Chaldean civilisations which have long since passed away. He further adds how the Chinese, whose, "chronicles antedate the historic records of all other nations, seem to have had a simple but complete mode of communicating ideas by means of florigraphic signs;" whereas, "the monuments of the old Assyrian and Egyptian races bear upon their venerable surfaces a code of floral telegraphy whose ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
... Associated Words: chronology, chronological, chronologist, antedate, antedating, prolepsis, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming |
