Antedate definition

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A date given to an event or a document that is earlier than the actual date.
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To be of an earlier date than; precede in time.
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To set an earlier date for.
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(archaic) To anticipate.
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To put a date on that is earlier than the actual date.

To antedate a check.

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To make happen earlier; accelerate.
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A date fixed for a historical event, writing, etc. that is earlier than the actual one.
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The definition of an antedate is a date for a historical event or writing that is earlier than the previously established date.

An example of an antedate is when a document was evaluated and found to have been written in 1250, not 1300 as originally thought.

An example of an antidate is put a date on a check which is ealier than the actual date the check was written.

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To antedate is defined as be older than something else.

An example of someone who you may antedate is your child.

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Antedate is defined as appointing a specific date to something.

An example of something a scientist may antedate is a fossil.

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To assign to a date earlier than that of the actual occurrence.
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To date as of a time before that of actual execution.

Antedate a contract; antedate a check.

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To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.
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To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate.
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Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
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To come or happen at an earlier date than; come before.
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Origin of antedate

  • From ante- + date

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Antedate Sentence Examples

  • He did unconsciously antedate the constitution, and it is clear from incidental allusions in his last work that he did not regard with favour the democratic changes which he thought to be impending.

  • The Buckman Tavern (built about 1690), the rendezvous of the minute-men, and the Munroe Tavern (1695), the headquarters of the British, are still standing, and two other houses, on the common, antedate the War of Independence.

  • Its faculties of theology - founded in 1841 at Newbury, Vt., as the Biblical Institute; in 1847-1867 in Concord, N.H.; and in 1867-1871 the Boston Theological Seminary - law, music, medicine, liberal arts and agriculture (at Amherst, in association with the Massachusetts Agricultural College), all antedate 1876.

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