Usually means: Assign a date earlier than actual.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word antedate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. antedate: Merriam-Webster
  2. antedate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antedate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antedate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antedate: Vocabulary.com
  6. antedate: Wordnik
  7. antedate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. antedate: Wiktionary
  9. antedate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. antedate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. antedate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Antedate, antedate: Dictionary.com
  13. Antedate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. antedate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. antedate: Rhymezone
  16. Antedate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. antedate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. antedate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. antedate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. antedate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. antedate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. antedate: Merriam-Webster

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Antedate: Investopedia
  6. antedate: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antedate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.
verb:  To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date.
verb:  (lexicography) To find earlier citational evidence for a term.
noun:  Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
noun:  (obsolete) anticipation

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