Misdating

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

  misdating \misdating\ n.
     The assignment of a date to something at a time when it could
     not have existed or occurred.
  
     Syn: anachronism, mistiming.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  misdating
       n : something located at a time when it could not have existed
           or occurred [syn: {anachronism}, {mistiming}]