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antedate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | foredate, predate |
| Type of | chronologise, chronologize |
Examples of antedate
antedate
It appears to antedate the Qur'anic inscriptions in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
From the guardian.co.uk
He did unconsciously antedate the constitution, and it is clear from incidental allusions in his last work that he did not favour the democratic changes he thought to be impending.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Since the author describes having witnessed the use of a compass on a ship trip some forty years earlier, some scholars are inclined to antedate its first appearance accordingly.
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These observations antedate Robert Hooke's Micrographia by nearly 20 years and were published some 29 years before van Leeuwenhoek saw protozoa and 37 years before he described having seen bacteria.
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- Predate: be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
- Predate: establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- In banking, antedated refers to cheques which have been written by the maker, and dated at some point in the past. In the United States antedated cheques are described in the Uniform Commercial Code's Article 3, Section 113.
- To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time; To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate
- To date back; retroactively. To date a document to a time before it was written.
