Definitions for antedates

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antedates an·te·date

Spelling: [verb an-ti-deyt, an-ti-deyt; noun Antedates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 281 anagrams from letters in antedates (aadeenstt).

Definitions for antedates

noun

1. a prior date.

verb (used with object)

1. to be of older date than; precede in time:
2. predate (def 1).
3. to assign to an earlier date:
4. to cause to return to an earlier time:
5. to cause to happen sooner; accelerate:
6. Archaic. to take or have in advance; anticipate.

Origin of antedates

1570-80; earlier antidate Middle French antidater, derivative of antidate a date earlier than the true date (by association with anté- ante-), originally a date put i

Examples for antedates

The actual beginnings of the town may antedate the Romans, but of this we know nothing.

The other numerous observations made by him antedate his American life and need not be mentioned here.

This would make them antedate July, 1759, which is not true of the bakehouse.

Their veritable records represent this people as far back as the days of Abraham, and, indeed, they antedate that period.

Here again Pitt's hopeful nature led him to antedate the course of events.

By reading a man does as it were antedate his life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past.

So does the species of animal or plant outlast and antedate the lifetime of one man.

No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb.

And yet there are many buildings in England still standing that antedate 1725 by many years, some by centuries.

These figures are, however, unreliable, and antedate the Russian Revolution.