[f. ANTE- + TYPE, prob. by erron. analysis of ANTITYPE.] A preceding type; an earlier example.
1612. T. Taylor, Comm. Titus i. 6. (1619), 99. Antetypes of Christ’s puritie.
1844. Marg. Fuller, Wom. in 19th C. (1862), 74. She is an antetype of a class to which the coming time will afford a field.
