antedate

antedate has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
• n.. Anticipation.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To precede in time.
• v. t.. To anticipate; to make before the true time.
• v.. establish something as being earlier relative to something else
• v.. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"