antedate

antedate
    v 1: be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede
         bronze tools" [syn: {predate}, {precede}, {forego},
         {forgo}, {antecede}, {antedate}] [ant: {follow},
         {postdate}]
    2: establish something as being earlier relative to something
       else [syn: {predate}, {antedate}, {foredate}] [ant:
       {postdate}]
    

Antedate \An"te*date`\ ([a^]n`t[-e]*d[=a]t`), n.
   1. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the
      actual date.
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   2. Anticipation. [Obs.] --Donne.
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Antedate \An"te*date`\ ([a^]n`t[-e]*d[=a]t`), v. t. [imp. & p.
   p. {Antedated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Antedating}.]
   1. To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier
      date;; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a
      date anterior to the true time of its execution.
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   2. To precede in time.
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   3. To anticipate; to make before the true time.
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            And antedate the bliss above.         --Pope.
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            Who rather rose the day to antedate.  --Wordsworth.
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ANTEDATE. To, put a date to an instrument of a time before the time it was
written. Vide Date.
    

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "antedate":
      announce, antecede, anticipate, backdate, be before, be dated,
      be early, bear date, come before, date, date at, date-stamp,
      dateline, datemark, foredate, forerun, go before, herald, lag,
      make a date, misdate, mistime, postdate, precede, precurse,
      predate, preexist, proclaim, set the date, update, usher in