Associations to the word «Antedate»
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Wiktionary
ANTEDATE, verb. To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time
ANTEDATE, verb. To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate
ANTEDATE, noun. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
ANTEDATE, noun. (obsolete) anticipation
Dictionary definition
ANTEDATE, verb. Be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools".
ANTEDATE, verb. Establish something as being earlier relative to something else.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.