be earlier in time go back further
"Stone tools precede bronze tools"
establish something as being earlier relative to something else
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antedate
No man can antedate his experience. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
By reading a man does, as it wore, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages. [ Jeremy Collier ]
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. [ Massinger ]
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's preexistence. [ Jeremy Collier ]
antedatein Scrabble®
The word antedate is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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antedatein Words With Friends™
The word antedate is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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