Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To date before the true time; antedate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To date before the true time; to antedate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To date before the true time; to antedate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb establish something as being earlier relative to something else

Etymologies

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fore- +‎ date

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