antedate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.

   “I suppose you know all about the fearful myths antedating the coming of man to the earth—the Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu cycles—which are hinted at in the Necronomicon.”

2. fiil To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date.

   “Tomorrow when you leav’st, what wilt thou say? / Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow?”

3. fiil To find earlier citational evidence for a term.

   “Furthermore, while OED entries are generally regarded as a good indication of when terms were first used in English, for 5 of the 7 terms the present research has been able to antedate OED’s earliest attestations, usually by a decade or more.”

4. isim Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
5. isim anticipation