Sentence examples for antedates from inspiring English sources

Melody, however, antedates the concept of scale.

The Wat Pra Meru, on a plan similar to that of the Ananda temple at Pagan in Burma (see above Burma), probably antedates the latter's foundation (c. 1090).

Hōgen monogatari (Eng. trans. Hōgen monogatari) and Heiji monogatari (partial Eng. trans. in Translations from Early Japanese Literature) chronicle warfare that antedates the events described in Heike monogatari but were probably written somewhat later.

The history of Borno antedates the 9th century, when Arabic writers in North Africa first noted the kingdom of Kanem, east of Lake Chad.

It excites the interest of Germanicists for its version of "Dukus Horant" (a poem from the Hildesage of the Kudrun [Gudrun] epic known from the Ambras Manuscript copied by Hans Ried, 1502/04 16), which antedates the earliest extant manuscript of the Hildesage by at least 130 years.

The wind rose may have been devised by the Etruscans, whose power reached its peak around the 6th century bc; it certainly antedates the octagonal Tower of the Winds built in Athens by Andronicus of Cyrrhus about 100 bc.

Only a few buildings antedate that period.

A treaty was signed on May 2 but was antedated to April 30.

The significance of these cerebral connections is not clear, but they may antedate the evolutionary development of the cerebral cortex.

One is bound to notice, however, that archaeological finds tend to call into question the whole concept of a Dark Age by showing that certain features of Greek civilization once thought not to antedate about 800 bce can actually be pushed back by as much as two centuries.

To arrest the decadence and infuse new vitality in a society in which they were convinced religion must remain the focal point, the modern reformers advocated a return to the movements and masters of Islamic theology and philosophy antedating the new wisdom.