overdate

English

Etymology

over- +‎ date

Noun

overdate (plural overdates)

1. A coin in which one date is superimposed over traces of another (due to reuse of a die)

Verb

1. (transitive) To date later than the true or proper period.
   • 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes:

     And had he also redeem'd his overdated minority from a Pupillage under Bishops, he would much less have mistrusted his Parlament […]

Synonyms

• postdate; see also Thesaurus:overdate

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overdate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)