antecede

You cannot afford to reject them because they antecede Christianity.

Are there causal connections among the elements; do some elements antecede others?

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

If the subject is salient ("proximate"), on the other hand, the subject's possessor may not antecede the third-person object, and the possession must be indirectly implicated as follows:

The concepts of difference and otherness, and the belief that sexual deviance leads to undifferentiation, have a philosophical and theological history, both of which antecede and influence psychoanalysis.

Moreover, these parts cannot antecede this one all-embracing space, as the component parts from which the aggregate can be made up, but can be cogitated only as existing in it.

For another, on the previous evening-and days do seem to antecede days-at the Elk Horn Motor Lodge, the Assistant Undersecretary had sounded out the citizens of Mottburg.

Accordingly, there are three rules of all relations of time in phenomena, according to which the existence of every phenomenon is determined in respect of the unity of all time, and these antecede all experience and render it possible.

But imagination can connect these two states in two ways, so that either the one or the other may antecede in time; for time in itself cannot be an object of perception, and what in an object precedes and what follows cannot be empirically determined in relation to it.

But being merely sensuous intuitions, in which we determine all objects solely as phenomena, the form of intuition (as a subjective property of sensibility) must antecede all matter (sensations), consequently space and time must antecede all phenomena and all data of experience, and rather make experience itself possible.