✍️ To write a future date ⏩ To happen later 📅 To set a later date

to postdate

1 6.5

To say that something happened after another event

verb
/ˈpoʊstˌdeɪt/

: fechar para una fecha posterior

According to Domazet-Loo and Tautz (2008), very few disease-related genes postdate the origin of mammals.

Examples

Luchino's discussion of Polirone's Renaissance church, the first to postdate Giulio's renovation, proclaims Lucrezia as its sponsor:

Academic text (1999)
She decided to postdate the check until her next payday to ensure she had enough funds.
In terms of retrospective risk assessment, "postdating" the pattern of political violence in the second half of 1995 with the help of earlier developments, several findings stand out.

Academic text (1998)
It is suggested above that 1970s price controls postdated the Arab oil embargo.

Blog text (33)
Obviously, not all of these modes postdate the moment of deconstruction, nor do they all accept its tenets: at some point or other, none of them does (at some points, neither does the practice of deconstruction).

Academic text (1993)
The contract was postdated to reflect an agreement that took place after the actual signing date.
He always postdates his deliveries to meet the scheduled deadlines for his clients.

Antonyms

to predate

41 5.8

To exist or happen before another thing

Surface Forms

postdate infinitive

postdated past

postdated past participle

postdating present participle

postdates third person singular

Morphology

postdate = date (transparent) = post + date

Standard prefixation: assigning a later date to something follows the expected 'post-' (after) + 'date' pattern.

Etymology

The word postdate comes from the prefix post- meaning 'after' and the word date meaning 'day' or 'time'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of placing an event or document at a later day than another, so to postdate something is to say it happened 'after' the other thing.