Came before.
An antedated check is a check that is dated before the date on which it was actually written. In other words, it is a check on which the written date is earlier than the date on which it was actually written.
I believe the disk condition antedated her accident.If you mean antedote:He has been bitten by the snake, but he would be ok as there was an antedote to the poison available.
Adam and Eve antedated modern man.
The practice of buying and selling slaves in the United States antedated the Civil War.
If a cheque bears a date earlier than the date on which it is presented to the bank, it is called anti-dated cheque
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The word antedates is both a noun and a verb.The noun antedate (antedates) is a date assigned to an event or document earlier than the actual date of the event or document.The verb antedate (antedates, antedating, antedated) is to date as of a time prior to that of execution; to assign to a date prior to that of actual occurrence; to precede in time.
For some off reason, tradition or custom, when women are admitted to a hospital they normally shave off their pubic hair- Below Decks- This custom long antedated anything loike DNA analysis for identification purposes. It is allegedly done for sanitary reaons. I can imagine there are people who would like to have a slide sample of the pubic hair of say, Anastasia Romanov, etc.
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 8 words with the pattern A-TE-A---. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter A and 3rd letter T and 4th letter E and 6th letter A. In alphabetical order, they are: alterable alterably alterants antedated antedates antenatal antepasts artefacts
We do not know.The sacred site at Ephesus was far older than the Artemision (Temple of Artemis). Pausanias understood the shrine of Artemis there to be very ancient. He states with certainty that it antedated the Ionic immigration by many years, being older even than the oracular shrine of Apollo at Didyma. He said that the pre-Ionic inhabitants of the city were Leleges and Lydians. Callimachus, in his Hymn to Artemis, attributed the origin of the temenos at Ephesus to the Amazons, whose worship he imagines already centered upon an image (bretas).
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 11 words with the pattern -N--D--ED. That is, nine letter words with 2nd letter N and 5th letter D and 8th letter E and 9th letter D. In alphabetical order, they are: antedated antidoted inundated unaudited unendowed unindexed unordered unreduced unriddled unsaddled unseduced
I have never seen a good diagram, but the device was mechanical, not electrical and would probably resemble an early code machine ( used to make and decode ciphers) or possibly a mechanical (these antedated the juice variety) digital clock the possibility exists it may have used a clockwork, wind up motor, also. read out would be digital as explained, like a mechanical adding machine or the now-rare mechanical digital clocks, which were invented in Germany. I have no further information on the Babbage device, which never was, well a household appliance.