predating in English

verb
1
exist or occur at a date earlier than (something).
this letter predates her illness
2
(of an animal) act as a predator of; catch and eat (prey).
A further 13 % were predated or scavenged during the shooting season (some of which may have been shot but not picked up).
verb

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1. Predating Hinduism by centuries, Brahmanism,

2. The Atlatl is an ancient weapon predating the bow …

3. He also propounded the Heliocentric theory of gravitation, thus predating Copernicus by almost one thousand years.

4. Birching was the common form of corporal punishment, predating the cane, in British schools

5. Crookneck squash is one of the oldest categories of squash predating the arrival of the Europeans to North America

6. Chua also argued that the memristor is the oldest known circuit element, with its effects predating the resistor, capacitor, and inductor.

7. 7 At first, they rolled tires from crucible steel,(www.Sentencedict.com) a method predating Bessemer and the other recent innovations.

8. In fact, the first recorded use of Anesthetics was actually in the 'pre-history' era, an era of human history predating written text.

9. He suggests that these observations of bugs predating reptiles call into question previously held opinions about predator-prey dynamics in freshwater habitats.

10. During the same period the spatial distribution and abundance of intertidal filter feeders decreased as well as the abundance of vagile predating polychaetes and amphipods at locations situated near low tide level.

11. Predating the Vikings, the majority of the game takes place in ancient Norway in the realm of Midgard, inhabited by humans and other creatures and is the same realm that the Greek world had existed in.

12. ‘Traditional Javanese Islam, a blend of Sufism mixed with Animist and Hindu concepts predating Islam, shares common heritage with Bali.’ ‘Broadly, I'm something of an Animist, so my everyday life is filled with minor recognitions, deals, tributes, and negotiations with local spirits.’

13. The old Market Street bridge [predating the Chestnut, Walnut, and South Street bridges] on the site of the more ancient ferry was the chief means of getting across the Schuylkill to the Almshouse and hospital, although there was some ferriage from the east side to a wharf or landing on the

14. It must be found that, in any event, the legislation predating the October 2013 contested acts already provided for such an ad hominem criterion with regard to it, so that the absence of information on the amendment at issue did not cause it harm and, in particular, did not preclude it from contacting the Council in order to put forward its point of view concerning the individual nature of that criterion, if necessary following the delivery of the judgment of 16 September 2013.