Postdate vs Predate - What's the difference?
postdate | predate |
To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time
To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date
To affix a date to after the event.
(obsolete) postdated; made or done after the date assigned.
* Fuller
To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
To exist, or to occur before something else; to antedate (the more correct term for this usage.)
A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue.
To prey upon something.
Predate is a antonym of postdate.
In transitive terms the difference between postdate and predate
is that postdate is to affix a date to after the event while predate is to exist, or to occur before something else; to antedate (the more correct term for this usage..As an adjective postdate
is postdated; made or done after the date assigned.As a noun predate is
a publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue.postdate
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Verb
(postdat)- to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made
Antonyms
(both senses) predateAdjective
(-)- Of these [predictions] some were postdate , cunningly made after the thing came to pass.
predate
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Etymology 1
From pre- 'before' + dateVerb
- The Japanese use of Pascal's Triangle predates its discovery by Blaise Pascal.