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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
postdate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The mosaic postdates this period, although the style is quite similar.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The maria and small plains in the highlands can readily be seen to postdate the craters on their borders.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postdate

Postdate \Post"date`\, n. A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.

Postdate

Postdate \Post"date`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postdated; p. pr. & vb. n. Postdating.] [Pref. post- + date.]

  1. To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.

  2. To affix a date to after the event.

Postdate

Postdate \Post"date`\, a. Made or done after the date assigned.

Of these [predictions] some were postdate; cunningly made after the thing came to pass.
--Fuller.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
postdate

also post-date, 1620s, from post- + date (v.1) "to assign a date to, to mark a date on." Related: Postdated; postdating. Intransitive meaning "be of an earlier date" is from 1909.

Wiktionary
postdate

  1. (context obsolete English) postdated; made or done after the date assigned. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time 2 (context transitive English) To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date 3 (context transitive English) To affix a date to after the event.

WordNet
postdate

  1. v. be later in time; "Tuesday always follows Monday" [syn: follow] [ant: predate]

  2. establish something as being later relative to something else [ant: predate]

Usage examples of "postdate".

He placed the currency, key rings, postdated coins, credit cards and chip cards, passport, green card, cellphones, and a few other items into the depression.

One_ postdated Dada and predated Surrealism, thereby providing a one-man bridge between the two major art movements of this century.

Surrounding Hellas were a number of ancient volcanoes, which just postdated the impact, including Australis Tho-lus to the southwest, Amphitrites Patera to the south, and Hadriaca Patera and Tyrrhene Patera to the northeast.

Surrounding Hellas were a number of ancient volcanoes, which just postdated the impact, including Australis Tholus to the southwest, Amphitrites Patera to the south, and Hadriaca Patera and Tyrrhena Patera to the northeast.

She'd grown up in a throwback religious community that didn't accept any social development postdating the midtwentieth century, and spent her first few adult decades as a troubled but outwardly dutiful surrendered wife.

He could do so, because it postdated his last unhappening of the girl Becka.