predate1
/priːˈdeɪt
/verb [with object]
Exist or occur at a date earlier than (something): here parish boundaries seem clearly to predate Roman roads...
- Prosecutors said the committee had approved applicants who presented forged honours that carried dates pre-dating the actual creation of the vaunted title.
- The show had well passed its sell by date (it pre-dated Showboat on Broadway, where it opened the Ziegfeld Theatre).
- More surprisingly, much of the modern church and adjacent holy well sit on underground cisterns that clearly pre-date them, and appear to be of Byzantine date.
predate2
/priːˈdeɪt/verb [with object]
(Of an animal) act as a predator of; catch and eat (prey).A further 13 % were predated or scavenged during the shooting season (some of which may have been shot but not picked up).
Origin
1940s: back-formation from predation.
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