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▪ I. antedate, n.|ˈæntɪdeɪt|
[f. ante- + date n.]
1. A date affixed to a document, or assigned to an event, earlier than its actual date.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Antidater une obligation, to give an Antidate to an Obligation. 1609Rowlands Knave of Clubbes 16 Ile frame a Bill that I am in thy debt, And to the same an Ante date will set. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VI. 95, I posted away to the lady, intending to plead great affairs that I came not before, in order to favour your antedate. 1870Daily News 31 Aug./2 Brevet-Colonel ―..to be major-general, dated 6th March, 1868, such antedate not to carry back pay prior to 23rd July, 1870.
†2. fig. Anticipation. (Cf. antedate v. 6.) Obs.
1624Donne Devotions 10 (T.) Why hath not my soul these apprehensions, these presages..those antedates..those suspicions of a sin, as well as my body of a sickness?
▪ II. antedate, v.|ˈæntɪˌdeɪt|
Also 6–7 anti-.
[f. prec. n.; cf. date n. and vb.]
1. trans. To affix an earlier than the true date to (a document).
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 953/1 Counterfeiting and antidating of the kings seale in a signet. 1682J. Scarlett Exchanges 56 He that Antidates an Endorsement is guilty of fraud and deceit. 1715Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 343 He got the king to antedate it, as if it had been signed at Oxford. 1858Beveridge Hist. India II. vi. ii. 587 He drew up a letter which he antedated fifteen days.
2. To assign (an event) to an earlier date.
a1631Donne Poems 4 Wilt thou then antedate some new⁓made vow? 1775Fielding's Life in Wks. I. Pref. 19 Having often ante-dated, and sometimes post-dated, the matter which he found in the Spanish history. 1872E. Robertson Hist. Ess. 193 The struggle..began in the reign of Edgar and was antedated long afterwards..to throw odium upon Edwy.
3. To carry back to an earlier date or time.
a1600Quaternio 262 Wisedome..could in some sort anti⁓date their dayes, and giue them an essence and being with the holy Patriarkes. 1697J. Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1702) 97 By Reading a Man does as it were Antedate his Life. c1850Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets That rage Barbaric, ante⁓dates the age.
4. To bring about at an earlier date, accelerate.
1640T. Carew Poems Wks. 1824, 132 If you let her goe, she may Antedate the latter day. 1662Fuller Worthies ii. 67 A fright of his Mother..accelerated, or rather ante⁓dated his nativity. 1712Spect. No. 437 ⁋1 Sorrow, and private Anxiety of Mind, which antedate Age and Sickness. 1813Scott Trierm. ii. xxv, Seem'd..that Fate Would Camlan's ruin antedate.
5. To come before (something) in date; precede.
1664Power Exp. Philos. Pref. 1 Neither do their Records furnish us with anything that does Antedate our late discoveries. 1703De Foe Elegy on Annesley, As if design'd by Instinct to be Great, His Judgment seem'd to antidate his Wit. 1867Draper Amer. Civ. War I. ii. §1. 76 The Peruvian empire antedates that of Mexico.
6. To take in imagination before its actual occurrence, to anticipate.
1611Beaum. & Fl. Triumph Hon. iii, Like an obedient servant, antedating My Lord's command. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. i. Wks. IX. 30 Shame does but antedate the divine anger. 1708Pope St. Cecilia's D. 123 Our joys below it [Music] can improve, And antedate the bliss above. 1810Coleridge Friend vi. xi. (1867) 343 Wisdom forbids her children to ante-date their knowledge, or to act and feel further than they know. |