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antedate
verb as in occur or cause to occur earlier
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A foreign patent in order to invalidate an American patent must antedate the invention patented.
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However, most of the older residences in Fredericksburg antedate the fire, and are of an earlier Colonial period.
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They antedate questions, and thus in all cases aggravate the difficulty of answering them satisfactorily.
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So powerful is this instinctive faith that men of simple modes of character are prone to antedate its consummation.
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No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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