antetype

American  

[an-tee-tahyp] / ˈæn tiˌtaɪp /

noun

1. an earlier form; prototype.

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antetype British  

/ ˈæntɪˌtaɪp /

noun

1. an earlier form; prototype

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Etymology

Origin of antetype

First recorded in 1605–15; ante- + type

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Example Sentences

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antetype

Here then the antetype agrees perfectly with the type, all the preparation work accomplished between the hours of three and six in the evening, called between the two evenings.

From A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 by Joseph Bates

If two or more species have been independently formed on the plan of a common antetype, then the series of affinities will be compound, and can only be represented by a forked or many-branched line....

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by James Marchant

Hence Moses comes in with the prophets as an antetype of Christ.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

From this point, the spiritual life proceeded to evolve out of itself continually many gradations of existence, each lower one being still the impression, the antetype, of the immediate higher one.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

On the gem are engraved the three symbols by which the Trinity—Osiris, Isis, and Horus; Father: Mother, and Child, the antetype of Humanity—became known and worshipped.

From The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension by George Chetwynd Griffith

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