post-daten.
/ˈpəʊs(t)deɪt/, U.S. /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌdeɪt/ A date given on a document, book, etc., that is later than the actual date of signing, publication, etc.; a date assigned to an event that is later than the date on which it took place.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > assignment to a wrong time or date > a wrong date
antedate?1456
post-date1611
misdate1701
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Postidate, a Post-date.
1701 H. Wanley Let. 11 July in Philos. Trans. 1704–5 (Royal Soc.) 24 1997 The reason of these Post-Dates was, because..a Book was by how much the Newer, by so much the more Valuable.
1872 Times 18 July 11/4 The violation of military usage which would have been involved in the post-date of a Commission once given by the Queen will have been avoided.
2004 Countryman (W. Austral.) (Nexis) 7 Oct. 3 They were given a post-dated cheque by AFC for the next 50 per cent of the payment... He said AFC had told him not to cash the cheque until the post date, which was September 2003.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
post-datev.
/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈdeɪt/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈdeɪt/ 1. transitive. To assign to (a document, book, event, etc.) a date later than its true date.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > assign to a certain date > to a wrong, later, or earlier date > antedate a document
antedate1568
post-date1624
backdate1946
1624 J. Donne Deuotions ix. 210 This were to antidate, or to postdate their Consultation, not to giue phisick.
1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 203 Our own aptness to antedate promises, and to postdate threatnings.
1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1997 Other Books are Post-dated that they might be accounted New.
1762 A. Murphy Ess. Life & Genius H. Fielding 32 in H. Fielding Wks. I Having often ante-dated, and sometimes post-dated the matter, which he found in the Spanish history.
1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 17 Knowing the same [bill] to be post-dated.
1852 in D. W. Beadle Amer. Lawyer 286 If any merchant or trader shall wilfully post-date any article charged in such account..he shall forfeit tenfold the amount of such article.
1891 C. Lowe in 19th Cent. Dec. 861 Many of the Berlin newspapers which are published in the evening are post-dated by a day.
1911 G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma iii. 57 The way to work it is this. I'll postdate the cheque next October.
1991 Which? May 244/3 They wrote back saying: ‘It is illegal to post-date cheques’, and charged her..a whole quarter's bank charges for one day's overdraft.
2. transitive. To belong to, occur at, or be assignable to a date or period later than (a particular event, date, period, etc.).
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > succeed or follow [verb (transitive)] > belong to a later date than
post-date1853
1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Nov. 481/1 The distinction of object and subject, of the not-me and the me, post-dates sensibility and intelligence.
1899 New Cent. Dec. 475 To the thoughtfully minded among the two later generations—those which post-date the Crimean War—this is an interesting discovery.
1951 J. H. Moss Early Man in Eden Valley v. 62 Matthes suggested the name Neo-glaciation for the minor glacial pulsation represented by these moraines, and pointed out that it probably postdates the so-called Climatic Optimum.
1971 World Archaeol. 3 170 The hearth must have post-dated the last use of the pit.
1991 Antiquity 65 940/2 The earliest trade goods are associated with funerary ritual at the Marmes Rockshelter in eastern Washington State and just barely post-date 10,800 b.p.
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