antedate (anted at)

t.; pret. and pp. ante dated, ppr. antedating. [ [The Tweed Ring] had... caused. warrants to be an tedated , in order that interest might be charged from such date to the time of payment. N. A. Rev. , CXXIII. 381. 2. To be of older date than; precede in time. With the exception of one or two of the later prophets, the Old Testament antedated all written history known at the beginning of the present century. The Independent (New York), Nov. 15, 1883. 3. To anticipate; realize or give effect to (something) in advance of its actual or proper time. No man can antedate his experience, or gue what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock, any more than he can draw to-day the face of a person whom he shall see to-morrow for the first time. Emerson, History. antediluvial (ante-di-lū'vi-al), a. Same as antediluvian. IMG:content-0828.png:[ocr errors][merged small] 234 vium and deluge.] I. a. 1. Existing before the flood (the Noachian deluge) recorded in Genesis; relating to the times or events before the Noachian deluge: as, the antediluvian patriarchs: by extension, applied to the time preceding any great flood or inundation, as that which is said to have occurred in China in the time of Yao, 2298 в. с.-2. Belonging to very ancient times; antiquated; primitive; rude; simple: as, antediluvian ideas. The whole system of travelling accommodations was barbarous and antediluvian . De Quincey, Works, II. 163. II. n. 1. One who lived before the deluge. The longevity of the antediluvians . Bentley . Hence, humorously-2. One who is very old or very antiquated in manners or notions; an old fogy. ante dorsal (an-te-dôr's al), a. [ fin: as, an ante dorsal plate. antefactt (an'te-fakt), n. [L. ante, before, + factum, a thing done: see fact.] An act, especially a rite or ceremony, which precedes or prefigures an event: opposed to post fact. There is a proper sacrifice in the Lord's supper, to exhibit Christ's death in the post-fact, as there was a sacrifice to prefigure, in the old law, the ante -fact. Copie of the Proceedings of some Divines (1641), p. 2. antefix (an'tē-fiks), n.; pl. antefixes , L. antefixa (-fik-sez, an-te-fiksä). [ antefixum , in pl. antefixa , neut. of antefix us , fastened before, IMG:content-0829.png:[subsumed][ocr errors][merged small] Upper figure, from the Par the non, partly restored: A, antefix; B, false antefix; C, acroterium pedestal; D, imbrices protecting the joints. Lower figure: E, antefix in terra cotta, Berlin Museum. ante, before, + fix us, pp. of figere, fasten: see fix.] In cla . arch., an upright ornament, generally of marble or terra cotta, placed at the eaves of a tiled roof, at the end of the last imbrex or tile of each ridge of tiling, to conceal the joining of the tiles. Antefixes were also often placed at the junction of the imbrices along the ridge of a roof, forming a cresting. In some Roman examples the antefixes were so disposed and combined with water-chan nels as to serve as gargoyles. ante mortem prosecute, and the accused had to swear on the day of ordeal that he was innocent. Wharton.