ante (+accusative)
before Building Blocks
Ante omnia saecula (Before all ages) — Nicene Creed
In Scripture
Joannes testimonium perhibet de ipso, et clamat dicens : Hic erat quem dixi : Qui post me venturus est, ante me factus est : quia prior me erat.
John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me.
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