predating
verb
- 1
To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
- 2
To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
“The Chinese use of Pascal's Triangle predates its discovery by Blaise Pascal.”
verb
- 1
To prey upon something.
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