antecede
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In them I learned much anteceding any reasoning whatever.
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Both schools united, however, in the conviction that DARKNESS—Erebus—anteceded all other created things.
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Theist and Agnostic must agree in recognizing the properties of Space as inherent, eternal, uncreated—as anteceding all creation, if creation has taken place.
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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.
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But the origin of the fable antecedes the destruction of Poseidonis by more than seventy thousand years, however incredible it may seem.
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