antedate
/antɪˈdeɪt
/ /ˈantɪdeɪt /verb [with object]
1Precede in time; come before (something) in date: a civilization that antedated the Roman Empire...
- The conflict that the book is about can also be interpreted as a conflict not between Islam and Christianity but between Europe and Afro-Asia whose origin antedates the rise of Islam.
- THE PRACTICE OF land-value taxation is deeply rooted in Danish history, going back at least to the reign of Valdemar the Great, and possibly even antedating the Viking king, Sven Forkbeard.
- This technique recalls medieval recipes antedating the invention of the pudding cloth.
Synonyms
precede, predate, come/go before, be earlier than, anticipate
1.1Indicate or discover that (a document, event, or word) should be assigned to an earlier date: there are no references to him that would antedate his birth...
- More than 300 words and phrases are being examined, with OED researchers hoping to antedate them (find an earlier use) or postdate them (find a recent example to prove a word is still in use).
- He was later tried for having antedated a consulting bill, but was acquitted.
- early day motion
- early door
- early doors
- Early English
- early flowering
- early fruiting
- early grave
- earlyish
- Early, Jubal
- early leaver
- early leaving
- early modern
- early music
- early musician
- early night
- early-onset
- early (or earlier) on
- Early Pointed
- early purple orchid
- early purple orchis
- early retirement
- early retirer
- early riser
- early rising
- early Victorian