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antedate

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See also: antedaté

English

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Etymology

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From ante- +‎ date.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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antedate (third-person singular simple present antedates, present participle antedating, simple past and past participle antedated)

  1. To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.
    Synonyms: predate; see also Thesaurus:predate
    Antonym: postdate
    • 1931, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
      I suppose you know all about the fearful myths antedating the coming of man to the earth—the Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu cycles—which are hinted at in the Necronomicon.
    • 1986, People v. Calio[1], 42 Cal.3d 639,644:
      We therefore turn to the question whether defendant's prior convictions for burglary and attempted burglary could be used as the basis for an enhancement under [California Penal Code] sections 667 and 1192.7. Both prior convictions antedate the effective date of section 667.
    • 2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics, 4th edition, Springer, page 311:
      Actually, mathematical models of multi-sector growth models antedate the Harrod-Domar and Solow-Swan aggregate models.
    • 2024, Jeremy Bay Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, Cambridge University Press, page 281:
      Dimensional analysis is a serious business in the natural sciences, where what you're measuring actually exists […]; and it even has a theorem that goes with it (Buckingham's theorem, which like any good mathematical theorem with a name attached, apparently antedates Buckingham).
  2. To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date.
    Synonyms: backdate, foredate; see also Thesaurus:backdate
    Antonyms: postdate, overdate; see also Thesaurus:overdate
    • 1633, John Donne, Woman's Constancy:
      Tomorrow when you leav’st, what wilt thou say? / Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow?
  3. (lexicography) To find earlier citational evidence for a term.
    • 2017 January, James Lambert, “A multitude of “lishes”: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[2], volume 38, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN:
      Furthermore, while OED entries are generally regarded as a good indication of when terms were first used in English, for 5 of the 7 terms the present research has been able to antedate OED’s earliest attestations, usually by a decade or more.

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Translations

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Noun

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antedate

  1. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
  2. (obsolete) anticipation

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Verb

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antedate

  1. inflection of antedatar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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antedate

  1. inflection of antedatar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative