antemosaic

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adjective

Before the time of Moses.

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Meanings

adjectiveantemosaic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBefore 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
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    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 28, Christian Examiner, volume 23, page 46

    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.

    1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Origin

From ante- + Mosaic.

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antemosaic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antemosaic

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