Crossword clues for antedating
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
n. 1 The action of marking with an earlier date 2 The addition of an earlier citation. vb. (present participle of antedate English)
Wikipedia
In lexicography, antedating is finding earlier citations of a particular term than those already known.
Historical dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary provide citations meant to show the evolution of every word, beginning with the earliest known usage. Antedating is a key task in lexicography and a popular sport. By indicating limitations of dictionaries they raise important questions of the consistency of editorial policies, and of the exhaustiveness and accuracy of dictionary material. The issue has thus been addressed in several major studies as well as in hundreds of papers tracing individual words, some of which are by-products of historical or linguistic research.
Similar activities are postdating (finding more recent evidence of words than is currently quoted) and interdating (intermediate evidence where large gaps in dating evidence exist).
To encourage and facilitate this process, dedicated submission forms are available on the internet and regular appeals to the public for investigation are being made. The appeal Wordhunt was part of the TV show Balderdash and Piffle on BBC.
Usage examples of "antedating".
Within moments they passed one of the places remnant of the time antedating the Great Blow, a collection of tall columns of some black stone overgrown with vines sprouting orange orchids.
An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years.
Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers.
When that document came to light in Europe in the fifteenth century, Pico della Mirandola, Ficino, and many other people of great wisdom immediately realized that it had to be a work of most ancient wisdom, antedating the Egyptians, antedating even Moses himself.
From its pattern and workmanship, which are of a period antedating the "departure from Delfshaven," and the ancient tradition which is traceable to Brewster's time, it appears altogether probable that what is known as "Elder Brewster's chair" came with him on the ship.
But this is a mere reinforcement of a native quality or, at all events, a quality long antedating the rise of the curious preference just mentioned.
Stars, as on the night when she had ridden, five years after the destruction of her home and family, through the Nemedian forest called Darkwooda deserted, haunted place said to be the last remnant of a far vaster forest that had flourished during cycles of prehistory antedating even Acheron.
The volumes covered the years 1917 through 1923, antedating the fire that burned the chemist's shop.
The volumes covered the years 1917 through 1923, antedating the fire that burned the chemist’s shop.
Large as those black muzzles seemed at the distance, they were assuredly mostly the bombardsarchaic, large-bored, primitive guns antedating true cannon and heavy, clumsy to handle, with barrel walls and breeches too weak to throw iron balls.