down-datev.
/ˈdaʊndeɪt/, U.S. /ˈdaʊnˌdeɪt/ Archaeology and Ancient History.
transitive. To establish or propose a later dating for (an artefact, style, era, etc., that is generally or conventionally thought to be earlier). Cf. backdate v.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > assign to a certain date > to a wrong, later, or earlier date
misdate1577
antedate1609
to pull back1610
redate1611
transtime1647
reduce1714
anachronize1831
predate1854
down-date1949
1949 Ann. Brit. School Athens 44 182 Langlotz, in down-dating the finer Corinthian vases of the polychrome style, rejects the evidence of the inferior animal-frieze vases on the ground that they do not really reflect the development of style.
1972 Hesperia 41 176 This situates the piece in Ravel's Period IV, which G. K. Jenkins has down-dated to ca. 380ies–350 b.c.
1995 N. Sekunda & S. Northwood Early Rom. Armies 17/1 Tradition assigns the adoption of hoplite tactics to the mid sixth-century b.c., but there have been attempts to down-date the change to the mid-fifth century.
2003 Antiquity 77 773 One of us proposed..down-dating the strata affiliated with the time of Solomon in the mid tenth century b.c. to the first half of the ninth century b.c.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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