Antedate

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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     2. Anticipation. [Obs.] --Donne.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. To precede in time.
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     3. To anticipate; to make before the true time.
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              And antedate the bliss above.         --Pope.
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              Who rather rose the day to antedate.  --Wordsworth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  antedate
       v 1: be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede
            bronze tools" [syn: {predate}, {precede}, {forego}, {antecede}]
            [ant: {postdate}]
       2: establish something as being earlier relative to something
          else [syn: {predate}, {foredate}] [ant: {postdate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "antedate":
     announce, antecede, anticipate, backdate, be before, be dated,
     be early, bear date, come before, date, date at, date-stamp,
     dateline, datemark, foredate, forerun, go before, herald, lag,
     make a date, misdate, mistime, postdate, precede, precurse,
     predate, preexist, proclaim, set the date, update, usher in
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ANTEDATE. To, put a date to an instrument of a time before the time it was
  written. Vide Date.