1580s, earlier as noun meaning "a backdating, false early date attached to a document or event" (1570s); from Latin ante "before" (see ante) + date (v.1). Related: Antedated; antedating.
双语例句
1. The cold weather antedate ed their departure.
寒冷的天气使他们提前离开.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
2. All this is not to antedate the demise of the empire.
