Difference between Antedate and Predate

ANTEDATE vs PREDATE: NOUN

A date given to an event or a document that is earlier than the actual date.
A prior date; a date antecedent to another, or to the true or actual date of a document or event.
Anticipation.
Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue.

To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time
To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate
Establish something as being earlier relative to something else
Be earlier in time; go back further

To exist, or to occur before something else; to antedate (the more correct term for this usage.)
To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
Be earlier in time; go back further
Establish something as being earlier relative to something else
Come before
Prey on or hunt for
To prey upon something.

To mark or designate with a date earlier than the actual one.
To precede in time; antedate.
To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an earlier than the actual date; to antedate.

To date before the true time; give an earlier date to than the real one: thus, to antedate a deed or bond is to give to it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.
To be of older date than; precede in time.
To anticipate; realize or give effect to (something) in advance of its actual or proper time.
Be earlier in time
Go back further

Reconquered, Inhere, Adduces, Reified, Efface, Hellenized, Adumbrate, Datable, Postdate, Backdate, Antecede, Foredate, Forego, Precede, Predate

Postdate, Hark, Prefigured, Since, Typify, Signify, Foreshadow, Presage, Resemble, Allude, Antecede, Foredate, Forego, Antedate, Precede

Prefiguring, Reconquered, Inhere, Adduces, Reified, Efface, Hellenized, Adumbrate, Datable, Postdate, Foredate, Antecede, Forego, Precede, Predate

Pertain, Postdate, Hark, Prefigured, Since, Typify, Foreshadow, Presage, Resemble, Allude, Foredate, Antecede, Forego, Antedate, Precede

Military conscription, tax collection, economic and fiscal planning, social service, and a host of other administrative organs antedate the police by several generations.
The foregoing policies do not apply to persons whose consensual sexual relationships antedate their enrolling or being employed at Agnes Scott College.
WG spellings antedate the decision to make Beijing speech a national standard, so some early publications standardized upon other dialects of Mandarin.
The arrangements vary widely, but both antedate and parallel the model of the university teacher.
State water rights that antedate the creation of a reservation areunaffected by reserved rights.
As Lewin proved, even the Romans did not antedate the year to Jan.
Antichrist plays whose origins antedate the fifteenth century, the Chester play being one.
How to our phoebe to antedate your order.
Even if authentically belonging to Judah Haqqadosh, it would still not antedate the second Christian century.
Such undertakings appear, however, in reported cases that antedate these texts.

She has some major abandonment issues that predate your relationship.
Adore love seems to predate her time on Drag Race.
Japanese contacts predate the mutual establishment of permanent legations.
But sometimes, feeling lonely could predate the actual relationship.
So the change seems to predate Trump, a little.
Does this message predate the loss in any way?
It also encompasses issues that predate military service.
Both concepts predate American or even English law.
Many soil surveys predate current users and uses.
They are predecisional because they predate the preparation of the OIG Report, and thus necessarily predate the adoption of any final agency policy.

Do dystonic seizures predate the cognitive impairment associated with limbic encephalitis?
Are there any fossils of fish that predate the three genera?
Why do Gray's poems predate the Martian experiment?
What are some Christmas traditions that predate Christianity?
Do bivalves predate brachiopods by 150 million years?
Does capitalism predate the capitalist mode of production?
How does Ancient Greek religion predate Christianity?