to antedate
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8.7
- verb
- /ˈæntɪˌdeɪt/
:
anteceder
- This ancient manuscript antedates the invention of the printing press by several centuries.
Examples
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However, there are three sculptures, now in the National Museum, Lagos, which could well antedate this period.
Academic text (1994) -
Civil defense groups known as rondas antedate the current armed conflict.
Academic text (1991) -
Being French antedates the French Revolution and is independent of it.
Academic text (2005) -
The rationale behind the resulting maritime strategy antedated the Reagan administration.
Academic text (1990) -
But a fairly extensive search through various online archives only antedated the OED's citation by two years, to 1936.
Blog text (29) -
It antedates those statues by 1,000 years.
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Actually, Wilson's political involvement antedated the Curragh affair itself.
Academic text (1992) -
The first is the era of Spanish colonization in Georgia, which antedated Oglethorpe by something like 200 years.
Academic text (2013) -
And Israel's politicians are rooted in a culture of vehement argument that antedates Zionism itself.
Academic text (1998) -
Their early adult years were marked by child-rearing (mothers of the baby boom) and antedated the women's movement.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
107
4.1
Happen before something else in time or order
95
3.0
To come from an earlier time
41
5.8
To exist or happen before another thing
11
6.9
To be present before a certain time or event
1
7.2
To come before something in time
Put an earlier day on a document than its real one
To happen before something else in time
To be older than another thing in time
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Antedate is made of ante- and date, where ante- means 'before' and date is the same 'date' you see on a calendar. So, to antedate something is to say it happened earlier than another thing or to give it an earlier date.