Definitions

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  • verb To change the date assigned to (something); to date in a new way

Etymologies

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re- +‎ date

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Examples

  • The creationist sort that posits implausible scenarios and doesn't seem aware that you cannot simply redate events in the history of Christianity without correlating this with what we know about the earlier or later period you are moving events or composition to.

    Intelligently-Designed Narratives: Mythicism as History-Stopper James F. McGrath 2010

  • When it comes to the purported conquest of Canaan, individuals like Bryant Wood have strenuously tried to relocate Ai and redate the fall of Jericho's walls.

    Archive 2009-04-01 James F. McGrath 2009

  • When it comes to the purported conquest of Canaan, individuals like Bryant Wood have strenuously tried to relocate Ai and redate the fall of Jericho's walls.

    Inerrancy, Historicity, Maximalism and Minimalism James F. McGrath 2009

  • Buy none whose sell-by dates have expired, and try to select packages with the most distant selling dates but remember that in many states the retailer can redate “wholesome” meats that it has packed itself.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Buy none whose sell-by dates have expired, and try to select packages with the most distant selling dates but remember that in many states the retailer can redate “wholesome” meats that it has packed itself.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Buy none whose sell-by dates have expired, and try to select packages with the most distant selling dates but remember that in many states the retailer can redate “wholesome” meats that it has packed itself.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Buy none whose sell-by dates have expired, and try to select packages with the most distant selling dates but remember that in many states the retailer can redate “wholesome” meats that it has packed itself.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • I don't like how they're pulling up, so I'm gonna repost all my patterns, think I'll redate them to Sept 2005, to make this easy...

    Archive 2005-10-01 Sara M 2005

  • I don't like how they're pulling up, so I'm gonna repost all my patterns, think I'll redate them to Sept 2005, to make this easy...

    reposting patterns Sara M 2005

  • It was this which led him to reclaim his early letters from his friends, to alter, rewrite, and redate them, utterly unconscious of the trouble which he was preparing for his future biographers.

    The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems Alexander Pope 1716

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