Meaning & use

antedate

verb·Academic

To exist or happen at an earlier date than something else, or to assign an earlier date to a document.

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The ancient ruins antedate the earliest written records of the region by centuries.

Her lawyer accidentally antedated the contract by one week when filling in the form.

A note on using this word

Antedate is often used interchangeably with predate, though predate is far more common in everyday speech.

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