Postdate vs Temporize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between postdate and temporize

is that postdate is while temporize is to deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate.

postdate

English

Verb

(postdat)

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 postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made

To affix a date to after the event.

Antonyms

(both senses) predate

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) postdated; made or done after the date assigned.

* Fuller

Of these [predictions] some were postdate , cunningly made after the thing came to pass.

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temporize

English

Verb

To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate.

(obsolete) To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.

* Daniel

They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize .

(obsolete) To delay; to procrastinate.

(Francis Bacon)

(obsolete) To comply; to agree.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms

* temporizer