Misdate

3 definitions found

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

  Misdate \Mis*date"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Misdated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Misdating}.]
     1. To put a false or erroneous date on (a document). --Young.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To assign an incorrect date to; as, the fall of Troy was


        misdated by medieval writers.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  misdate
       v : assign the wrong date to

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

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "misdate":
     anachronism, antedate, antedating, anticipation, earliness,
     foredate, historical error, lag, lateness, metachronism, misdating,
     mistime, mistiming, parachronism, postdate, postdating,
     prochronism, prolepsis, tardiness, unpunctuality