Crossword clues for antedated
antedated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antedate \An"te*date`\ ([a^]n`t[-e]*d[=a]t`), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Antedated; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
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To anticipate; to make before the true time.
And antedate the bliss above.
--Pope.Who rather rose the day to antedate.
--Wordsworth.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: antedate)
Wikipedia
An antedated contract is a contract whose date is in the past; formally, a contract where the effective date on the contract is prior to the date on which the contract is executed (written, signed, made effective). The term is from Latin ante meaning "before", and its antonym is postdate. Another example, in simpler terms, might be that if something antedates something else, it predates it, or is older than it.
See antedated check for ante.
Usage examples of "antedated".
That dull, inglorious empire had antedated or outlived Venice and Genoa, Florence and Siena, the England of Cromwell, the Holland of the Stadtholders, and the France of many revolutions, and all the fleeting democracies which sprang from these.
May not likewise the Spanish maiz have antedated the time of Columbus, and borne testimony to early intercommunication between the people of the Old and New Worlds?
The Iron Age in Northern Europe far antedated intercourse with the Greeks or Romans.
Good food and wine and a fine historical atmosphere that antedated even the Prophet himself, blessing and peace be upon him.
The Barbarians who are alluded to by Homer and Thucydides were a race of ancient navigators and pirates called Cares, or Carians, who occupied the isles of Greece before the Pelasgi, and antedated the Phœnicians in the control of the sea.
Both antedated the coming of the Protector, who had not yet found a suitable excuse for getting rid of either, though they irritated her frequently.
Derwent Coleridge, has a little antedated the poet's stages of development in stating that when his father was sent to Christ's Hospital in his eleventh year he was "already a poet, and yet more characteristically a metaphysician.
That the provocation to it on the husband's part may be so far antedated is at least a reasonable conjecture.
The point is that these ideas long antedated the discovery of the scientific evidence for any of them.
Lovejoy, ever on the scene with a perceptive report, points out that "the appearance of the general notion of an evolutionary advance long antedated the discovery of most of the scientific evidence for that hypothesis.
One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily conceived.
Davids in Canada, the British would retaliate by burning Washington -- a letter said to be either antedated or intentionally delayed, as it reached its address when the capital was in ashes.
It was all very efficient, and in a reflective mood, drowsy from his exertions and a full stomach, he pondered the small miracle before him: how a speck of protoplasm, a mere dot of white nerve-tissue which was a spider's brain, had antedated the mind of Euclid by countless centuries.