"antemosaic" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From ante- + Mosaic.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1747, Samuel Hebden, A treatise on forms of prayer of human composition, page 44:",
          "text": "This was practised not only in the Antemosaic Times, but afterwards.",
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          "ref": "1837 September 20, Christian Examiner, volume 23, page 46:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Before the time of Moses."
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  "word": "antemosaic"
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  "etymology_text": "From ante- + Mosaic.",
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          "ref": "1747, Samuel Hebden, A treatise on forms of prayer of human composition, page 44:",
          "text": "This was practised not only in the Antemosaic Times, but afterwards.",
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        },
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Before the time of Moses."
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  "word": "antemosaic"
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