0 formal for predate
1 to put a date on a document that is earlier than the date it is signed:
an antedated check
2 to have existed or happened before something else:
antedate sth by 6 months/ten years, etc. Adverse information that antedates a consumer report by more than seven years is not reportable.
The passage could have been excised, which seems unlikely; it could also antedate the sources that include it.
This rejection of all preexisting models positioned his interpretive method as a final break with all of the dream psychologies antedating his own.
Much of this transformation antedates the merger movement, including provisions allowing for combinations.
It also seems safe to assume that evidential modality antedates evaluative modality with these verbs.
The virtually double first ministership, one from each community, has a pedigree antedating the negotiations, as we shall see.
That a structure antedated the function it performs, offers a sufficient criterion for recognition of exaptation.
Moreover, they were able to reconceptualize their own experience with humans who encountered machines, experience that antedated even the naming and categorizing of accident proneness.
Depressed persons tend to reside in adverse circumstances that may antedate, co-occur with, and persist beyond their depression.
