antedate
Occur earlier than
Antedate means to precede in time or to assign an earlier date than the actual one.
A document may be antedated to make it appear older: The contract was antedated by two weeks.
Historical events antedate others when they came first: The Roman Empire antedates the Byzantine.
The noun antedate refers to a date earlier than the true one.
Record falsely earlier
- backdatingAssigning earlier date falsely
- postdateAssign a later time
- misdatingAssigning wrong time period
- ex post factoEnacted after the fact
anachronism · retroactive · retrospective · falsification · forgery · fraud · document · timestamp
Something that comes first
- forerunnerOne that comes before
- predecessorOne who came first
- priorExisting before another
- earlierAt a prior time
before · precede · preexist · foreshadow · prefigure · herald · harbinger · progenitor
backdate
Record falsely earlier
- backdatingAssigning earlier date falsely
- postdateAssign a later time
- misdatingAssigning wrong time period
ex post facto · anachronism · retroactive · retrospective · falsification · forgery · fraud · document · timestamp · records
precursor
Something that comes first
- forerunnerOne that comes before
- predecessorOne who came first
- priorExisting before another
earlier · before · precede · preexist · foreshadow · prefigure · herald · harbinger · progenitor · vanguard
timeline
Ordered display of events
sequence · temporal · earlier · prior · historical · antiquity · epoch · era · period · ancient
genesis
Point of creation
birth · beginning · outset · nascent · early · primitive · original · foundational · ancestral · primordial
- Come beforeprecede, lead, go first
- "ante-" wordsanteroom, antechamber, antepartum, antemortem, antemeridian