ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Bearing an antedate, assigned to an earlier date; transferred to an earlier time; brought about at an earlier date, accelerated, anticipated.
1611. Cotgr., Antidaté, Antidated.
1665. J. Spencer, Prodigies, 375. An antedated and diseased old age.
a. 1711. Ken, Poet. Wks., 1721, II. 83. Thou … Apostates dost expel, Giving them here an antedated Hell.
1822. Hazlitt, Table T., II. iv. 58. A file of antedated newspapers.
