ANTEDATE

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

2.
n.

Anticipation. [Obs.] Donne.

3.
v.

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.

4.
v.

To precede in time.

5.
v.

To anticipate; to make before the true time. And antedate the bliss above. Pope. Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.

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