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antemosaic

antemosaic adjective: before the time of Moses.

Adjective

antemosaic (not comparable)

  1. Before the time of Moses.
    • This was practised not only in the Antemosaic Times, but afterwards.1747, Samuel Hebden, A treatise on forms of prayer of human composition, page 44
    • The manners and condition of society referred to or implied in some, at least, of the following passages, adduced by De Wette, seem to point to a much later period of Jewish history, than the Antemosaic or Mosaic age.1837 September, Christian Examiner, volume 23, page 46

Origin of antemosaic

From ante- + Mosaic.

Questions about antemosaic

What does antemosaic mean?
Antemosaic means before the time of Moses.
What part of speech is antemosaic?
Antemosaic is an adjective.

Words near antemosaic in the dictionary

  1. antemetics
  2. antemillennial
  3. antemodern
  4. antemolar
  5. antemortem
  6. antemosaic
  7. antems
  8. antemundane
  9. antemural
  10. antemurals
  11. antenairesis

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