vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of marking with or assigning to an earlier date; anticipating.

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1587.  [See ANTEDATE v. 1.]

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1619.  Naunton, in Fortesc. Papers, 96. The late entring and antedating of the Order.

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1706.  trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist., II. V. 80. Henry II. had published an Edict in June, 1550. to reform Abuses, Frauds, Antedatings and Forgeries.

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1879.  Farrar, St. Paul, II. 587. That ante-dating of the second Advent.

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