antedate

See also: antedaté

English

Etymology

ante- +‎ date

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæntiˌdeɪt/

Verb

1. 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.

2. 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?

3. (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

• Bulgarian: предшествам (predšestvam)
• Finnish: edeltää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingue:
• Russian: предше́ствовать (ru) (predšéstvovatʹ)

To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate

• Bulgarian: поставям по-раншна дата на документ
• Czech: antedatovat
• Dutch: antedateren (nl)
• French: antidater (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: predatizar (io)
• Interlingue:
• Portuguese: antedatar, pré-datar
• Russian: дати́ровать задним числом (datírovatʹ zadnim čislom)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} antaŭdati
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} antidatirati (sh)

Noun

antedate

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

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Spanish

Verb

antedate

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of antedatar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of antedatar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of antedatar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of antedatar.