misdating

9.3

Giving a wrong date to something so it appears to be from the wrong time

noun
/ˌmɪsˈdeɪtɪŋ/

: fechado incorrecto

Due to a misdating of the manuscript, scholars believed it was from the Middle Ages instead of the earlier period.

Examples

The importance of typological over chronological thinking is at the basis of the spectacular misdating of the eleventh-century Baptistery in Florence, thought by knowledgeable Renaissance artists and scholars to be an ancient temple.

Academic text (2005)
He absorbed the misdatings of the Florentine Baptistery by pointing out simply that Filippo Brunelleschi was influenced by various Romanesque and pre-Romanesque buildings.

Academic text (2005)
To put it in these terms, however, to speak of a "misdating" is to misunderstand the mechanism of the substitutional mode.

Academic text (2005)
The archaeologists discovered a misdating of the ancient artifacts, which led to incorrect conclusions about their origins.
The historian corrected the misdating in his report after further evidence showed the event could not have happened then.

Synonyms

backdating

vsmisdating

1 7.5

Giving a document or record a date earlier than it really happened

is a general incorrect time assignment that can place items at impossible times

Surface Forms

misdating singular

misdatings plural

Morphology

misdating = misdate (transparent) = mis + date + mis + ing

The verb 'misdate' is a straightforward combination of the productive prefix 'mis-' and 'date', and adding '-ing' forms the gerund/noun; learners who know 'mis-' and 'date' can infer the meaning.

Etymology

The word misdating comes from the prefix mis- meaning 'wrong' and date meaning 'a day or time'. Think of it like writing the wrong day on a calendar, so misdating means giving something the wrong date.