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Antedate v. t. (past & past part. antedated; pres. part. antedating)

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.

To precede in time.

To anticipate; to make before the true time. "And antedate the bliss above." "Who rather rose the day to antedate."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Antedate" Quotes from Famous Books

... agree that the experimental work was marvelous. Priestley's discovery of oxygen was epoch-making, but does not represent all that he did. Twice he just escaped the discovery of nitrogen. One wonders how this occurred. He had it in hand. The other numerous observations made by him antedate his American life and need not be mentioned here. They alone would have given him a permanent and honorable rank in the history of chemistry. Students of the science should reserve judgment of Priestley ...

— Priestley in America - 1794-1804 • Edgar F. Smith

... of her virginity afore hand, as your wise widows do of their states, before they marry, in trust to some friend, sir: who can tell? Or if she have not done it yet, she may do, upon the wedding-day, or the night before, and antedate you cuckold. The like has been heard of in nature. 'Tis no devised, impossible thing, sir. God be wi' you: I'll be bold to leave this rope with you, sir, for a remembrance. ...

— Epicoene - Or, The Silent Woman • Ben Jonson

... fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. 1238 POPE: Ode on ...

— Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations • Various

... the rings in his hand—"I know with what care and zeal, my son, the scribes of the Temple in the Holy City keep the names of the newly born, that every son of Israel may trace his line of ancestry to its beginning, though it antedate the patriarchs. My fathers—may the recollection of them be green forever!—did not think it sinful to borrow the idea, and apply it to their dumb servants. See ...

— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace

... may antedate even the Egyptian; but its monuments were less permanent, its rulers less anxious for the future. The "appeal to posterity," the desire for a posthumous fame, seems with them to have been slower of ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various

Words linked to "Antedate" : forego, foredate, postdate, predate, chronologise, precede, chronologize, antecede