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Definition of Antedate
1. Verb. Be earlier in time; go back further. "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
Derivative terms: Antecedence, Antecedency, Antecedent, Precedence, Precedency, Precedent, Precedent, Precession
Antonyms: Postdate
2. Verb. Establish something as being earlier relative to something else.
Definition of Antedate
1. n. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
2. v. t. 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.
Definition of Antedate
1. Verb. To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time ¹
2. Verb. To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Antedate
1. to be of an earlier date than [v -DATED, -DATING, -DATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antedate
Literary usage of Antedate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Conceptions antedate their names. Reason of a name historical, and founded in
convenience, not necessity. Insignificance of derivation. ..."
2. Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as Representative Arts; an Essay in by George Lansing Raymond (1895)
"Modes of Expression in Architecture and Music as Contrasted with Painting,
Sculpture, and Poetry—The Germs of Music and Architecture antedate those of the ..."
3. The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1863)
"And antedate the wrong them may'st achieve me Against my will, by what my will
allows ; Yet not without some sorrow, gentle house ! ..."
4. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1899)
"There are not wanting scholars who hold that portions at least of the Kalevala
antedate Homer and Hesiod, and probably go back as far as the days of David, ..."
5. Mind and Hand: Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education by Charles Henry Ham (1900)
"... Learn Should Be Encouraged—The Effects of Manual Training Long antedate its
Introduction to the Schools—Bacon's Definition of Education—Stephenson and ..."
6. Philosophy of the Great Unconscious by Samuel Eugene Stevens (1908)
"Did the phenomenon called matter, antedate and evolve mind, or did the phenomenon
called mind antedate and evolve matter ? ..."
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