单词 | redate |
释义 | redatev. rare before 19th cent. transitive. To change the date of, assign a new date to. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > assign to a certain date > to a wrong, later, or earlier date misdate1577 antedate1609 to pull back1610 redate1611 transtime1647 reduce1714 anachronize1831 predate1854 down-date1949 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Redater, to redate, or adde a new date vnto. 1715 S. Centlivre Poem presented to His Majesty 6 Delightful Liberty , with Fears half dead, Hears the glad Noise, and rears her pleasing Head; Her slacken'd Nerves their former Strength regain, And she her Life redates from George's Reign. 1864 Spectator 31 Dec. 1498 Instead of rewriting or redating the previous part of my letter I prefer to send it as it was written. 1886 Cent. Mag. May 109/1 Those new theories of astronomy and geology..forced us to redate the age of the world and of man's life upon it. 1927 D. Arundell Henry Purcell i. 15 If Daniel's voice was not broken by 1678 the traditional year of his birth, 1660, must be wrong: it should be re-dated at least two years later. 1988 Parl. Hist. 7 341 John Guy redates, but acknowledges, Cromwell's activities in the secretariat and in the formation of the Privy Council. 2001 Kenyon Rev. Winter 183 Franklin has carefully inspected Dickinson's paper stock..and reanalyzed the changes in her handwriting, leading him to redate and renumber the poems. Derivatives reˈdating n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > assignment to a new date redating1897 1897 A. V. G. Allen Christian Inst. i. vi. 77 In the proposed redating of the incidents in the later life of Paul, the time of his going to Rome is placed by Dr. McGiffert so early as 56 A.D. 1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans ii. 54 A recently propounded re-dating of a fragment of a skull. 2002 New Scientist 8 June 40/2 If a recent redating of the Tumblagooda sandstone of Western Australia is confirmed, euthycarcinoids may turn out to be the oldest land animals yet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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