单词 | antedating |
释义 | antedatingn. 1. The action of marking with or assigning to an earlier date; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > assignment to an earlier date antedating1587 retrojection1825 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 953/1 Counterfeiting and antidating of the kings seale in a signet. 1619 Sir R. Naunton in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 96 The late entring and antedating of the Order. 1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. v. 81 An Edict..to reform Abuses, Frauds, Antedatings and Forgeries. 1796 W. Woodfall et al. Impartial Rep. Deb. 6th Session 17th Parl. III. 236 The only irregularity..was in the antedating of the bills, and dating them from Hamburgh. 1838 F. Hobler Liber Mercatoris ii. 82 The antedating of the order is forbidden, upon the penalty of forgery. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. App. i. 587 That ante-dating of the..second Advent. 1912 Insurance Law Jrnl. Apr. 748 The court held that the antedating of the policy made it equivalent to an insurance, ‘lost or not lost’, and noted that there was no question raised of either fraud or concealment. 1964 R. J. Forbes Stud. Anc. Technol. VIII. i. 22 Many of his countrymen..do not believe in this antedating fixed on the dates given by Kossinna. 2012 B. Vere in M. Huggins & M. O'Mahony Visual in Sport v. 82 The antedating of the Pompidou's Metzinger sketch for At the Cycle-Race Track to 1911, a date that suggests a pre-Futurist genesis for the work. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > antecedent or precursor forerunnerOE forridelc1000 messengerc1300 precursora1500 waymaker1574 postiliona1586 ushera1586 precedence1598 vaunt-courier1598 precedent1599 prodromus1602 ante-disposition1611 precedency1611 prodrome1611 antecedent1612 antedating1633 leading card1635 prodromy1647 antecessor1657 precursorya1660 prodromist1716 morning star1721 skirmisher1820 antecursor1850 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 18) 1624 The..pre-apprehension of sickenesse and death, is an antedating of sickenesse and death. a1651 N. Culverwell White Stone in Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) 134 Assurance of salvation, 'tis..the antedating of heaven, the Prepossession of glory. 1730 R. Erskine Militant's Song 39 Singing is a cheerful Work... It is an antedating of the Joy of Heaven. 1821 Priest I. iv. 189 The mind of Lewen was a beacon in a night of misty darkness; an antedating of that brilliant birth of genius which was soon to illumine the world. 1912 Biblical World 40 348 The question may be raised here in passing whether this single occurrence of the term in Mark, like the use of ‘Christ’ in 1:1, may not be regarded as an unconscious antedating of the historical usage of the word. 3. An occurrence of a word, phrase, or sense, which predates the earliest use previously known or recorded. ΚΠ 1942 Amer. Speech 17 200/1 Antedatings, postdatings, and words not listed in the OED. 1986 Dictionaries 8 103 An even more demanding task was that of finding antedatings. 2003 J. Schäfer in R. R. K. Hartmann Lexicography xii. 249 Antedatings of five, ten, twenty, or even thirty years will scarcely influence our views on the history of the English language. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1587 |
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