antedate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb be earlier in time; go back further
    antecede; forego; predate; forgo; precede.
    • Stone tools precede bronze tools
  2. verb establish something as being earlier relative to something else
    predate; foredate.

WordNet

An"te*date` noun
Definitions
  1. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
  2. Anticipation. Obs. Donne.
An"te*date` transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Antedated; present participle & verbal noun Antedating
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. To precede in time.
  3. To anticipate; to make before the true time.
    And antedate the bliss above. Pope.
    Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.

Webster 1913