What is "predated"

Usage examples of "predated".

The village itself was independent of the Institute in power and the like and its construction predated all of them.

There was older trash mixed in the flotsam and jetsam, hardy trash that predated the stringent recycling regulations of the past century.

If this was the case, the realms predated Virtu—they predated computers.

Both were among the few fellow Barrayarans the Dendarii employed, and both were fully apprised of Miles's dual identity as Admiral Naismith, slightly renegade Betan mercenary, and Lieutenant Lord Miles Vorkosigan, dutiful Barrayaran ImpSec covert ops agent, for both predated the creation of the Dendarii Fleet itself.

The East-West confrontation which had predated his birth was now a thing of history, and who would have believed that?