antecede

In them I learned much anteceding any reasoning whatever.

Both schools united, however, in the conviction that DARKNESS—Erebus—anteceded all other created things.

Theist and Agnostic must agree in recognizing the properties of Space as inherent, eternal, uncreated—as anteceding all creation, if creation has taken place.

And when we consider the assurances given us, that these declensions were to antecede the universal prevalence of true religion; they may also serve to increase our hope.

But the origin of the fable antecedes the destruction of Poseidonis by more than seventy thousand years, however incredible it may seem.