Antedated vs Antedates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between antedated and antedates

is that antedated is past tense of antedate while antedates is third-person singular of antedate.

(head)

(antedate)

(antedat)

To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time

To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate

* predate

* postdate

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

(obsolete) anticipation

(John Donne)

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(head)

(antedate)

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