antedate

1 The system is evidently an ancient one, long antedating the immunologic sensing of familiar or foreign forms of life by the antibodies on which we now depend so heavily for our separateness.

2 The Invoice be antedate to january 1 st.

将该发票日期填早到1月1日.

3 He got the king to antedate it, as if it had been signed at Oxford.

4 All this is not to antedate the demise of the empire.

这一切不会使帝国提前衰亡.

5 The letter was dated two years back, but the month was December, and, of course, to antedate would be the first precaution.

6 Though now known as little else but the eve of the Christian festival, Hallowe’en and its formerly attendant ceremonies long antedate Christianity.

7 The thought that a 17-game regular season was too long will someday seem as quaint and antedated as the Christmas Eve playoff matchups of the mid-1970s.

8 Luke slightly postpones its beginning and very greatly antedates its suppression.

9 Yet war antedates the state, diplomacy and strategy by many millennia.

10 It antedated the human species, and appears to this day first in the young animal, as well as in the infant.

11 The bloody sacrifices of the Old Testament were antedated by heathen nations centuries before the Jews.

12 They rest in *nature and antedate all creeds and churches, and will survive them.

13 The cupellation process is of great antiquity, and the separation of silver from lead in this manner very probably antedates the separation of gold and silver.

14 To place a prior date on a legal document, statement or check. Also called antedate.

在法定文件、报表或支票上填一个以前的日期，又称提前日期。

15 In fact barnyards antedated barometers as forecasters, because all the domestic creatures, with pigs in particular, evidenced the disagreeable leniency of the low pressure areas upon their persons.

16 The church antedates the village itself.

17 When Selig became acting commissioner in 1992, baseball still had an economic model that antedated television, radio, flight and the internal combustion engine.

18 Spenser praises Essex in one of the Sonnets prefixed to his “Faery Queen,” which antedates the Sonnets of Shakspere.

19 In truth, however, Italy’s migration policies antedate Salvini by at least two years, and represent an ugly consensus generally if more quietly shared by many powers in the EU.

20 Scott and McClure volunteered to see Lincoln and ask him to withdraw the offensive letter and to permit Cameron to antedate a letter of resignation, to which Lincoln consented.

1 提前

beforehand preact advance ahead

2 促进

motive accelerative promotive precipitative advance promotion advancement acceleration encouragement impulse forwarding facilitation furtherance fosterage help power serve speed forward encourage promote wing facilitate foster accelerate grease goose further expedite sparkplug subserve give wing to help along

3 倒填的日期

postdate

4 提早

premature immature

5 早于

before early above pre-date

6 预期

anticipant expectative due prospective intending prevenient expectation anticipation expectancy contemplation prolepsis think expect anticipate contemplate envisage lay account with

7 先于

precede prior to before pre- pre-date above preparatory to rank forerun preliminary to ahead of previous to

8 预见

forecast expectancy foresight precognition prevision see foresee previse see beyond