Definition of antedate in English:

antedate

verb antɪˈdeɪtˈantɪdeɪtˈæn(t)ɪˌdeɪt

[with object]

1Precede in time; come before (something) in date.
（时间上）先于，早于
a civilization that antedated the Roman Empire
罗马帝国前的一个文明。
Example sentencesExamples
- Those words all antedate the arrival of Europeans - and anthropological classifications.
- Poverty has long antedated capitalism, and exploitation caused by human sinfulness has marked every era.
- All of the stone circles, menhirs, dolmens, etc., of the British Isles were constructed by peoples who antedated the Celts by one to three thousand years.
- Given the fact that the British road network largely antedates the highway authorities themselves, the court is not in a position to say what the appropriate standard of improvement would be.
- A method utilized by small, mobile units to harass, weaken, demoralize, and combat larger conventional forces, guerrilla warfare antedates modern history.
- Its name and recognition long antedated this botanist.
- The use of carriageways constructed of two layers of stone broken to different dimensions antedates the construction of Telford's government roads from London to Holyhead and in the environs of Glasgow and Lanarkshire.
- Four subjects had a history of asthma, but the condition antedated their employment in the facility.
- Porsche's history antedates its sports cars and began when a struggling automotive engineer, Ferdinand Porsche, befriended a fringe politician, Adolf Hitler, at a road race in the 1920s.
- Certain psychiatric disorders antedate the onset of substance use disorders.
- But these antedate the rise of muscular Christianity.
- In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature… there is an intelligence that antedates the universe.
- The conflict that the book is about can also be interpreted as a conflict not between Islam and Christianity but between Europe and Afro-Asia whose origin antedates the rise of Islam.
- Moreover, the book treats the emergence of modern advertising, not advertising, whose history antedates the author's period of study.
- It is unlikely, too, that improving survival chances of infants promoted a desire to reduce completed family size, since the fertility decline appears to have antedated the fall in infant mortality.
- This technique recalls medieval recipes antedating the invention of the pudding cloth.
- Bernard Lewis (Islam and the West) reminds us that learning about Islam is an old tradition which long antedates the Western ascendancy.
- THE PRACTICE OF land-value taxation is deeply rooted in Danish history, going back at least to the reign of Valdemar the Great, and possibly even antedating the Viking king, Sven Forkbeard.
- For one thing, devotional cults were also popular within India, and the worship of the Hindu god Krishna antedates Christ by several centuries.
- All the important rivalries in Europe both antedated the ideological divide and crossed its boundaries.
Synonyms
precede, predate, come/go before, be earlier than, anticipate
1. 1.1 Indicate or discover that (a document, event, or word) should be assigned to an earlier date.
  表明（文件，事件）发生的日期更早
  there are no references to him that would antedate his birth
  没有有关他的资料表明他的出生日期更早。
  Example sentencesExamples
  More than 300 words and phrases are being examined, with OED researchers hoping to antedate them (find an earlier use) or postdate them (find a recent example to prove a word is still in use).
  He was later tried for having antedated a consulting bill, but was acquitted.

Definition of antedate in US English:

antedate

verbˈan(t)iˌdātˈæn(t)ɪˌdeɪt

[with object]

1Precede in time; come before (something) in date.
（时间上）先于，早于
a civilization that antedated the Roman Empire
罗马帝国前的一个文明。
Example sentencesExamples
- In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature… there is an intelligence that antedates the universe.
- The conflict that the book is about can also be interpreted as a conflict not between Islam and Christianity but between Europe and Afro-Asia whose origin antedates the rise of Islam.
- Those words all antedate the arrival of Europeans - and anthropological classifications.
- For one thing, devotional cults were also popular within India, and the worship of the Hindu god Krishna antedates Christ by several centuries.
- All the important rivalries in Europe both antedated the ideological divide and crossed its boundaries.
- Given the fact that the British road network largely antedates the highway authorities themselves, the court is not in a position to say what the appropriate standard of improvement would be.
- THE PRACTICE OF land-value taxation is deeply rooted in Danish history, going back at least to the reign of Valdemar the Great, and possibly even antedating the Viking king, Sven Forkbeard.
- Poverty has long antedated capitalism, and exploitation caused by human sinfulness has marked every era.
- Four subjects had a history of asthma, but the condition antedated their employment in the facility.
- The use of carriageways constructed of two layers of stone broken to different dimensions antedates the construction of Telford's government roads from London to Holyhead and in the environs of Glasgow and Lanarkshire.
- Porsche's history antedates its sports cars and began when a struggling automotive engineer, Ferdinand Porsche, befriended a fringe politician, Adolf Hitler, at a road race in the 1920s.
- It is unlikely, too, that improving survival chances of infants promoted a desire to reduce completed family size, since the fertility decline appears to have antedated the fall in infant mortality.
- Bernard Lewis (Islam and the West) reminds us that learning about Islam is an old tradition which long antedates the Western ascendancy.
- But these antedate the rise of muscular Christianity.
- This technique recalls medieval recipes antedating the invention of the pudding cloth.
- Certain psychiatric disorders antedate the onset of substance use disorders.
- A method utilized by small, mobile units to harass, weaken, demoralize, and combat larger conventional forces, guerrilla warfare antedates modern history.
- Moreover, the book treats the emergence of modern advertising, not advertising, whose history antedates the author's period of study.
- Its name and recognition long antedated this botanist.
- All of the stone circles, menhirs, dolmens, etc., of the British Isles were constructed by peoples who antedated the Celts by one to three thousand years.
Synonyms
precede, predate, come before, go before, be earlier than, anticipate
1. 1.1 Indicate or discover that (a document, event, or word) should be assigned to an earlier date.
  表明（文件，事件）发生的日期更早
  there are no references to him that would antedate his birth
  没有有关他的资料表明他的出生日期更早。
  Example sentencesExamples
  More than 300 words and phrases are being examined, with OED researchers hoping to antedate them (find an earlier use) or postdate them (find a recent example to prove a word is still in use).
  He was later tried for having antedated a consulting bill, but was acquitted.

单词	antedate
释义	Definition of antedate in English: antedate verb antɪˈdeɪtˈantɪdeɪtˈæn(t)ɪˌdeɪt [with object] 1Precede in time; come before (something) in date. （时间上）先于，早于 a civilization that antedated the Roman Empire 罗马帝国前的一个文明。 Example sentencesExamples Those words all antedate the arrival of Europeans - and anthropological classifications. Poverty has long antedated capitalism, and exploitation caused by human sinfulness has marked every era. All of the stone circles, menhirs, dolmens, etc., of the British Isles were constructed by peoples who antedated the Celts by one to three thousand years. Given the fact that the British road network largely antedates the highway authorities themselves, the court is not in a position to say what the appropriate standard of improvement would be. A method utilized by small, mobile units to harass, weaken, demoralize, and combat larger conventional forces, guerrilla warfare antedates modern history. Its name and recognition long antedated this botanist. The use of carriageways constructed of two layers of stone broken to different dimensions antedates the construction of Telford's government roads from London to Holyhead and in the environs of Glasgow and Lanarkshire. Four subjects had a history of asthma, but the condition antedated their employment in the facility. Porsche's history antedates its sports cars and began when a struggling automotive engineer, Ferdinand Porsche, befriended a fringe politician, Adolf Hitler, at a road race in the 1920s. Certain psychiatric disorders antedate the onset of substance use disorders. But these antedate the rise of muscular Christianity. In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature… there is an intelligence that antedates the universe. The conflict that the book is about can also be interpreted as a conflict not between Islam and Christianity but between Europe and Afro-Asia whose origin antedates the rise of Islam. Moreover, the book treats the emergence of modern advertising, not advertising, whose history antedates the author's period of study. It is unlikely, too, that improving survival chances of infants promoted a desire to reduce completed family size, since the fertility decline appears to have antedated the fall in infant mortality. This technique recalls medieval recipes antedating the invention of the pudding cloth. Bernard Lewis (Islam and the West) reminds us that learning about Islam is an old tradition which long antedates the Western ascendancy. THE PRACTICE OF land-value taxation is deeply rooted in Danish history, going back at least to the reign of Valdemar the Great, and possibly even antedating the Viking king, Sven Forkbeard. For one thing, devotional cults were also popular within India, and the worship of the Hindu god Krishna antedates Christ by several centuries. All the important rivalries in Europe both antedated the ideological divide and crossed its boundaries. Synonyms precede, predate, come/go before, be earlier than, anticipate 1.1 Indicate or discover that (a document, event, or word) should be assigned to an earlier date. 表明（文件，事件）发生的日期更早 there are no references to him that would antedate his birth 没有有关他的资料表明他的出生日期更早。 Example sentencesExamples More than 300 words and phrases are being examined, with OED researchers hoping to antedate them (find an earlier use) or postdate them (find a recent example to prove a word is still in use). He was later tried for having antedated a consulting bill, but was acquitted. Definition of antedate in US English: antedate verbˈan(t)iˌdātˈæn(t)ɪˌdeɪt [with object] 1Precede in time; come before (something) in date. （时间上）先于，早于 a civilization that antedated the Roman Empire 罗马帝国前的一个文明。 Example sentencesExamples In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature… there is an intelligence that antedates the universe. The conflict that the book is about can also be interpreted as a conflict not between Islam and Christianity but between Europe and Afro-Asia whose origin antedates the rise of Islam. Those words all antedate the arrival of Europeans - and anthropological classifications. For one thing, devotional cults were also popular within India, and the worship of the Hindu god Krishna antedates Christ by several centuries. All the important rivalries in Europe both antedated the ideological divide and crossed its boundaries. Given the fact that the British road network largely antedates the highway authorities themselves, the court is not in a position to say what the appropriate standard of improvement would be. THE PRACTICE OF land-value taxation is deeply rooted in Danish history, going back at least to the reign of Valdemar the Great, and possibly even antedating the Viking king, Sven Forkbeard. Poverty has long antedated capitalism, and exploitation caused by human sinfulness has marked every era. Four subjects had a history of asthma, but the condition antedated their employment in the facility. The use of carriageways constructed of two layers of stone broken to different dimensions antedates the construction of Telford's government roads from London to Holyhead and in the environs of Glasgow and Lanarkshire. Porsche's history antedates its sports cars and began when a struggling automotive engineer, Ferdinand Porsche, befriended a fringe politician, Adolf Hitler, at a road race in the 1920s. It is unlikely, too, that improving survival chances of infants promoted a desire to reduce completed family size, since the fertility decline appears to have antedated the fall in infant mortality. Bernard Lewis (Islam and the West) reminds us that learning about Islam is an old tradition which long antedates the Western ascendancy. But these antedate the rise of muscular Christianity. This technique recalls medieval recipes antedating the invention of the pudding cloth. Certain psychiatric disorders antedate the onset of substance use disorders. A method utilized by small, mobile units to harass, weaken, demoralize, and combat larger conventional forces, guerrilla warfare antedates modern history. Moreover, the book treats the emergence of modern advertising, not advertising, whose history antedates the author's period of study. Its name and recognition long antedated this botanist. All of the stone circles, menhirs, dolmens, etc., of the British Isles were constructed by peoples who antedated the Celts by one to three thousand years. Synonyms precede, predate, come before, go before, be earlier than, anticipate 1.1 Indicate or discover that (a document, event, or word) should be assigned to an earlier date. 表明（文件，事件）发生的日期更早 there are no references to him that would antedate his birth 没有有关他的资料表明他的出生日期更早。 Example sentencesExamples More than 300 words and phrases are being examined, with OED researchers hoping to antedate them (find an earlier use) or postdate them (find a recent example to prove a word is still in use). He was later tried for having antedated a consulting bill, but was acquitted.
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