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English
Etymology
From ante- + Mosaic.
Adjective
antemosaic (not comparable)
- Before the time of Moses.
1747, Samuel Hebden, A treatise on forms of prayer of human composition, page 44:This was practised not only in the Antemosaic Times, but afterwards.
1837 September, Christian Examiner, volume 23, page 46: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.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:I am horrorstruck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.