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Webster 1913 Edition


Antemundane

Anˊte-mun′dane

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Adj.
Being or occurring before the creation of the world.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Antemundane

ANTEMUND'ANE

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Adj.
[ante, before, and mundus, the world.] Being before the creation of the world.

Definition 2024


antemundane

antemundane

English

Alternative forms

  • ante-mundane

Adjective

antemundane (not comparable)

  1. Being or occurring prior to the creation of the world.
    • 1933, Clark Ashton Smith, ‘Ubbo-Sathla’:
      Again he became the sorcerer Zon Mezzamalech in Mhu Thulan; again he dreamt to retrieve the wisdom of the antemundane gods [...].