antedaten.
/ˈantᵻdeɪt/, U.S. /ˈæn(t)əˌdeɪt/ Now rare.† 2. Something which comes first or before; a preview, a precursor; a premonition. Obsolete.
1. A date affixed to a document, or assigned to an event, which is earlier than its actual date.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > assignment to a wrong time or date > a wrong date
antedate?1456
post-date1611
misdate1701
?1456 H. Windsor in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 145 Howe that any lettrez patentez shuld be purchased of an ante date, and the defaute founde in me [etc.].
1489 in W. Fraser Memorials Family Wemyss (1888) II. 114 That hie sal nocht mak no forthere take..be antedait..of the said landis.
1576 Act 18 Eliz. in O. Ruffhead Statutes at Large (1770) II. c. 5 §1 A speciall Note [shall] be made of the verye Daye..withoute any manner of Antedate thereof to be made.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Antidater une obligation, to give an Antidate to an Obligation.
1609 S. Rowlands Knave of Clubbes 16 Ile frame a Bill that I am in thy debt, And to the same an Ante date will set.
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale iii. 91 After the void, praeserves in silvern plate Set suche a postscripte to ann antedate, As not a common penn knowes to define.
1718 Polit. State Great Brit. May 496 If A aliens an Estate to B, and afterwards aliens the same Estate to C, with an antedate to the Deed of B, he is a forger within the Statute.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. lx. 365 I..posted away to the lady, intending to plead great affairs, that I came not before, in order to favour your ante-date.
1825 Niles' Nat. Reg. 27 409/1 Not knowing precisely when the grant first made its appearance, the committee is in no wise disposed to say they are suspicious of an antedate.
1870 London Gaz. 30 Aug. 3998/1 Brevet-Colonel Henry James Warre..to be Major-General, dated 6th March, 1868, such antedate not to carry back pay prior to 23rd July, 1870.
1901 20th Cent. Oct. 662 It was on the 10th of March 1813, the anniversary of the birthday of the deceased Queen Luise, that appeared the decree instituting the Order... This date..was probably an antedate, chosen..to connect with the order the memory of the beloved patriot queen.
1960 New Scientist 2 June 1386/2 You will be given an ante-date for seniority..which will align you with your contemporaries from Sandhurst.
1978 Britannia 9 244/2 Antistius Rusticus had been given decorations and had been adlected into the senate with an antedate of up to five years.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > anticipation
preventing1530
preoccupation1552
anticipation1553
antedate1573
prolepsis1578
forestalment1611
forestalling1641
precourse1678
pre-echo1781
pre-empting1857
previousness1881
proaction1953
proactivity1965
1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes sig. Fiv In his first Preface, where he giueth a briefe antedate of all those things, that he is most offended withall.
1624 J. Donne Deuotions i. 10 Why hath not my soule these apprehensions, these presages..those antidates..those suspitions of a sinne, as well as my body of a sicknes?
a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) 112 You boast too soon: Take heed your vain conceit Befools you not with a false Antidate: Ill-grounded triumphs are but breaths expense; Fools catch at words; but wise men at the sense.
a1692 J. March Serm. (1693) i. 11 An inraged Conscience is præjudicium judicii, the Antedate of the last Judgment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
antedatev.
/ˈantᵻdeɪt/, U.S. /ˈæntəˌdeɪt/, /ˌæntəˈdeɪt/ 1.
a. transitive. To affix or assign a date earlier than the true date to (a document, etc.). 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 > antedate a document
antedate1568
post-date1624
backdate1946
1568 L. Evans Castle of Christianitie f. 37v His writings be counterfeyte, his lease is antedated, his witnesses be prooued partiall, and periured.
1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 56 He that Antidates an Endorsement is guilty of fraud and deceit.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 244 He got the King to antedate it, as if it had been signed at Oxford.
1775 ‘Marcellus’ Let. to Earl of Suffolk 21 Antedating the bond, cannot possibly prove the Knowledge in the Forgery.
1818 J. Adolphus Polit. State Brit. Empire I. 202 The chancellor, or keeper of the great seal, must, by the statute of the 18th of Henry VI. when he fixes the great seal to the patent, ante-date it to the day of the recepi.
1858 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. vi. ii. 587 He drew up a letter which he antedated fifteen days.
1927 E. H. Griggs Amer. Statesmen ii. 113 Congress promised; but went right on issuing the drafts, and antedating them.
1960 H. Keniston Francisco de Los Cobos 1. 19 Giménez believes that this is another example of Conchillos' skullduggery by which he antedated an appointment.
2002 L. E. Robbins Elephant Slaves & Pampered Parrots iv. 120 In 1779..a bird merchant accused a group of master oiseleurs of trying to force him..out of business through forging and antedating sham documents.
b. transitive. To assign an earlier date to (an event).
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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
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica ii. 8 Is not my birth before his Anti-dated?
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 197 Wilt thou then Antedate some new made vow?
1710 tr. P. Bayle Hist. & Crit. Dict. III. 1941/1 To what end should he antedate this big Belly two Years?
1762 A. Murphy Ess. Life & Genius H. Fielding 32 in H. Fielding Wks. I Having often ante-dated, and sometimes post-dated the matter, which he found in the Spanish history.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 193 The struggle..began in the reign of Edgar and was antedated long afterwards..to throw odium upon Edwy.
1920 Century May 2 By antedating the Declaration by a hundred and fifty years we double the period to which we point with pride.
1970 H. B. Kossen in Stud. in John 100 (note) A custom which only came into being at the end of the first century was antedated to the time of Jesus.
2010 M. A. Halleran Better Angels of Our Natures i. 33 Masonic authors..fall victim to..attempting to antedate the origins of the Craft to ancient rites of the classical or preclassical world.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall
before-takea1382
preventc1425
devance1485
prevenea1500
lurch1530
to take before the bounda1556
to be aforehand with1570
to be beforehand with1574
to meet halfwaya1586
preoccupate1588
forestall1589
fore-run1591
surprise1591
antedate1595
foreprise1597
preoccupy1607
preoccupy1638
pre-act1655
anticipatea1682
obviate1712
to head off1841
beat1847
to beat out1893
pre-empt1957
1595 tr. ‘J. Borget’ Divels Legend iv. sig. B4 The foole antidated before in mine Astrologie, which behoulding the conuersion, feare neither winde, raine, nor faire weather.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Four Plays in One in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dddddddd4/1 Like an obedient servant, antedating my Lords command.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium i. i, in Wks. (1855) IX. 30 Shame does but antedate the divine anger.
1713 A. Pope Ode Musick 7 Our Joys below it [sc. Music] can improve, And antedate the Bliss above.
1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) III. xi. 258 Wisdom forbids her children to antedate their knowledge, or to act and feel otherwise, or further than they know.
1913 Summary 27 Dec. 15/3 Oh, many a blessing too was given, Our lives to deck, our hearts to cheer, And antedate the joys of heaven.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > hasten the occurrence of or make earlier
advance1481
acceleratec1522
prevent1548
antedate1604
roll on ——1885
1604 T. Winter tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Third Dayes Creation 10 Maladies that strike vs into eld In th'Aprill of our age, and with great strife Would antedate the period of our life.
1640 T. Carew Poems 185 If you let her goe she may, Antedate the latter day.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Kent 67 A fright of his Mother..accelerated, or rather antedated his nativity.
1712 Spectator No. 437. ⁋1 Sorrow, and private Anxiety of Mind, which antedate Age and Sickness.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain ii. xxv. 93 Seemed..that Fate Would Camlan's ruin antedate.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [verb (transitive)] > carry or cast back into the past
reducea1620
antedate1633
to carry back1644
retroject1850
1633 T. Nash Quaternio 262 Wisedome..could in some sort antidate their dayes, and giue them an essence and being with the holy Patriarkes.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 92 By Reading a Man does as it were Antedate his Life.
1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 40 That rage Barbaric, antedates the age!
5. transitive. To come before in date; to precede in time.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)]
forecomea1300
precede?a1425
fore-run1590
usher1607
eve1638
to usher in1641
surmounta1647
antevene1655
antedate1664
antecedea1676
anticipate1855
precourse1888
predate1889
precursea1892
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. A3 Neither do their Records furnish us with any thing that does Antedate our late discoveries.
1697 D. Defoe Char. Dr. S. Annesley 5 As if design'd by Instinct to be Great, His Judgment seem'd to antidate his Wit.
1867 J. W. Draper Hist. Amer. Civil War I. ii. §1. 76 The Peruvian empire antedates that of Mexico.
1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) ix. i. 222 Our last chance meeting antedated my new venture by at least six months, and he was not likely to have any knowledge of it.
1966 Word Study Oct. 2/1 Mark Twain's usage, in nearly 1000 instances, antedates the earliest evidence recorded.
2001 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 34 380 Some of the ingredients presently constituting the concept of objectivity long antedated the time of Francis Bacon and can be traced back to classical antiquity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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