Definition of "predated" [predated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of predate. (verb)

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• "This astonished me, because I had never before seen any indication that the term черносотенцы, chernosotentsy, in Russian predated the twentieth century."
• "Therefore, when the pope dies, of course, to avoid that anybody gets a hold of that ring and starts issuing documents in his name predated perhaps, they destroy the ring."
• "In 1958, he became president of Sar-A-Lee Inc., a Cleveland-based salad-dressing manufacturer whose name predated the baking titan."