Antedated

This title antedated the adoption of the Articles of ❋ Jefferson Davis (1848)

Personally, he was inclined to admire -- and frankly to admit it -- the ability which had brought Burr into prominence from a position of evident obscurity, while he regarded Mrs. Webb's eccentric attitude as a kind of antedated comedy. ❋ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1909)

The ancient manuscript—it antedated the city itself—identified their daughter as the “Infant Avatar,” whose birth would usher in a new age for Bajor. ❋ David R. George III (2011)

He had antedated Sullivan, in the old London Prize Ring Rules, though his last fading battles had been put up under the incoming Marquis of Queensbury Rules. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jack McQuestion antedated him; but they had entered the land by crossing the Rockies from the Hudson Bay country to the east. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We now know that several of the first recorded usages assigned to Shakespeare have been antedated. ❋ DC (2010)

Very early in my childhood I became keenly aware of the oppression of the Sami people, even if they antedated both the ethnic Norwegians and Finns in the region. ❋ Katherine Marshall (2010)