antedate
See also: antedaté
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
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- To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.
- 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.
- To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate.
- 1633, John Donne, Woman's Constancy:
- Tomorrow when you leav’st, what wilt thou say? / Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow?
- (lexicography) To find earlier citational evidence for a term.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[2], page 3:
- 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.
Synonyms
- (occur before an event or time): predate; see also Thesaurus:predate
- (earlier than the actual date): backdate, foredate; see also Thesaurus:backdate
Antonyms
- (occur before an event or time): postdate
- (earlier than the actual date): postdate, overdate; see also Thesaurus:overdate
Translations
To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time
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To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate
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Noun
antedate
- Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
- (obsolete) anticipation
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Donne to this entry?)
Spanish
Verb
antedate
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of antedatar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of antedatar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of antedatar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of antedatar.
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