antedate

Verb
Synonyms: predateprecedeforegoforgoantecedeforedate

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

  1. be earlier in time; go back further“Stone tools precede bronze tools”Synonyms: predateprecedeforegoforgoantecede
  2. establish something as being earlier relative to something elseSynonyms: predateforedate
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Antedate \An"te*date`\ ([a^]n`t[-e]*d[=a]t`), n.

1.Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date. [1913 Webster]

2.Anticipation. [Obs.] --Donne. [1913 Webster]

Antedate \An"te*date`\ ([a^]n`t[-e]*d[=a]t`), 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. [1913 Webster]

2.To precede in time. [1913 Webster]

3.To anticipate; to make before the true time. [1913 Webster]

And antedate the bliss above.— Pope.[1913 Webster]
Who rather rose the day to antedate.— Wordsworth.[1913 Webster]
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