Meanings of antecede in English

It must antecede death, or it will be of no avail.

Convictions, ordinarily, if not invariably, antecede conversion, prepare for it, and lead to it.

It is highly unlikely that we shall ever be able to discover whether images (cave drawings or petroglyphs) antecede or come after spoken language.

Now the reason of this again is that apperception, and with it thought, antecedes all possible determinate arrangement of representations.

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

Some would have us believe that the Samvat era "is not demonstrable for times anteceding the Christian era at all."

An extensive quantity I call that wherein the representation of the parts renders possible (and therefore necessarily antecedes) the representation of the whole.