▪ I. post-date, n.
(ˈpəʊstdeɪt)
[f. post- A. 1 b + date n.2 So F. postdate, obs. postidate.]
A date affixed to a document, or assigned to an event, later than the actual date.
| 1611 Cotgr., Postidate, a Post-date. 1701 H. Wanley in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1997 The reason of these Post-Dates was, because..a Book was by how much the Newer, by so much the more Valuable. |
▪ II. post-date, v.
(pəʊstˈdeɪt)
[f. post- A. 1 a + date v. So mod.F. postdater (1752 in Hatz.-Darm.); formerly postidater (1549 in Littré).]
1. trans. To affix or assign a later than the actual date to (a document, book, event, etc.).
| 1624 Donne Devotions Medit. ix. (ed. 2) 199 This were to antidate, or to postdate their Consultation, not to giue Phisicke. 1679 C. Nesse Antichrist 203 Our own aptness to antedate promises, and to postdate threatnings. 1701 H. Wanley in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1997 Other Books are Post dated that they might be accounted New. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 17 Knowing the same [bill] to be post-dated. 1891 C. Lowe in 19th Cent. Dec. 861 Many of the Berlin newspapers which are published in the evening are post-dated by a day. [So with the French daily papers.] |
2. To belong to a later date than (something).
| 1909 in Webster. 1955 [see ferricrete]. 1971 Daily Tel. 5 Aug. 8/1 The mineral miracle, which post-dates his first visit to the Antipodes in 1965, has now made it clear that Australia has more to offer..than sun and surf. 1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth i. 37 (caption) The granites post-date metamorphic rocks. 1971 World Archaeol. III. 170 The hearth must have post-dated the last use of the pit. |
Hence post-ˈdated ppl. a.; post-ˈdating vbl. n.
| 1622 Donne Serm. cxii. (ed. Alford) IV. 571 Prophecy is but antedated Gospel, and Gospel is but post-dated Prophecy. 1797 Godwin Enquirer i. iii. 16 A case more frequent than that of post-dated genius. 1866 Crump Banking iv. 89 Post-dated cheques, i.e. cheques bearing date subsequent to the actual drawing, are illegal [legal since 1882]. 1963 N. & Q. Jan. 16/2 (heading) A post-dating. 1968 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Jan. 37/4 There are post-datings, that is, evidence for the later existence of words that OED supposes obsolete. |