antedate

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This selection, which includes several cartoons that antedate the age of Trump, showcases several modes.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2017

These stones antedate even the long-ago, medieval world in which this “Macbeth” is set.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2014

Robert Hooke, not long after, suggested that the fossil record would form the basis for a chronology that would “far antedate ... even the very pyramids.”

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2013

Historically the city and the civilization at Quito antedate Columbus and hark back to glorious Inca times.

From Time Magazine Archive

My own guess would be that these weather-beaten stones, like those others on the hill beside Lough Gill, antedate Ossian by at least two thousand years.

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert