Antedate
[æntɪ'deɪt;'æntɪdeɪt] or [,æntɪ'det]
Definition
(n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
(n.) Anticipation.
(v. t.) To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.
(v. t.) To precede in time.
(v. t.) To anticipate; to make before the true time.
Checker: Monroe
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Date before the true time.[2]. Anticipate, forestall, foretaste.
Editor: Zeke
Definition
n. a date assigned which is earlier than the actual date.—v.t. to date before the true time: to assign an event to an earlier date: to bring about at an earlier date: to be of previous date: to accelerate: to anticipate.
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Examples
- Its origin, like the telescope, is hidden in the dim distance of the past, but it is believed to antedate the telescope. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The rifle, however, antedated the rifled cannon, the type of modern artillery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Although the electric motor of to-day depends for practical value entirely upon the dynamo which supplies it with electric power, nevertheless the motor considerably antedated the dynamo. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These also were invented by Edison, but antedated those previously described; being covered by Patent No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was also asserted that the filing of the Gray caveat antedated by a few hours the filing of the Bell application. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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