0 to happen or exist after something: --
Most manuscripts postdate the stories that have circulated by word of mouth for centuries.
1 to write a date on a document, such as a cheque or letter, that is later than the date on which you are writing it, usually to get some advantage: --
2 to write a date (= day, month, and year) that is later than the present on (a check, letter, or document) --
Awareness of risk ordinarily postdates the commencement of injecting behaviour.
If the date of felling of the tree can be determined and shown to postdate the death of the artist, the painting is clearly a fake.
The hominid fossils were found at the base of a sandstone with fragments of tuff, showing that they postdate the tuff, but probably by only a short period of time.
Since most manuscripts postdate the composition of the romances they contain, some by a century or more, they provide indirect evidence of both sorts of audiences.
The burial postdates the shaft-tombs period.
The arrangement here seems based on the notion that script and scripture are inextricably linked and that the sacred texts necessarily postdated the invention of writing.
Because social class is a historical construct formulated in a period that postdates the period under examination, it is arguably inappropriate for application across such a broad historical period.
None of these nine essays (in their original-language versions) postdates 1987.
