ANTEDATE

predate, antedate, foredate

(verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else

predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate

(verb) be earlier in time; go back further; “Stone tools precede bronze tools”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

antedate (third-person singular simple present antedates, present participle antedating, simple past and past participle antedated)

To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.

To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate.

(lexicography) To find earlier citational evidence for a term.

Synonyms

• (occur before an event or time): predate; see also predate

• (earlier than the actual date): backdate, foredate; see also backdate

Antonyms

• (occur before an event or time): postdate

• (earlier than the actual date): postdate, overdate; see also overdate

Noun

antedate

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

(obsolete) anticipation

Source: Wiktionary


An"te*date`, n.

1. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

2. Anticipation. [Obs.] Donne.

An"te*date`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Antedated; p. pr. & vb. n. Antedating.]

1. To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.

2. To precede in time.

3. To anticipate; to make before the true time. And antedate the bliss above. Pope. Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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