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Definition of Foredate
1. Verb. Establish something as being earlier relative to something else.
Definition of Foredate
1. v. t. To date before the true time; to antedate.
Definition of Foredate
1. Verb. (transitive) To date before the true time; to antedate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foredate
1. to antedate [v -DATED, -DATING, -DATES] - See also: antedate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foredate
Literary usage of Foredate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... envelop, enwrap, escarpment, exhilarate, expose, eyelet-hole. fore-arm (a),
forecast, forecastle, foredate, forefront, ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"It would have been cruel to have pressed Experience further, and Ignorance, to
foredate matters a little, went about to discover why Experience shied off ..."
3. Folio (1882)
"'•Build ye a gallows high and marvellous, Get the king's will and straight foredate
the day, For this is bitter and long-borne," said they. PART III. ..."
4. The National Preacher by Austin Dickinson (1837)
"... fiend in the pit came by turns and by groups to hoot and chatter about his
foul deed, and foredate his doom, and blacken the darkness of his despair. ..."
5. The Baptist Quarterly Review by J R Baumes, Robert Stuart MacArtur, Henry C Vedder (1883)
"... to foreknow what should be, therefore must, Bold to foredate it with creating
ey.es." VOL. V, No. ..."
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