Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To put a date on (a check, for example) that is later than the actual date.
- transitive verb To occur later than; follow in time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A date put on a document later than the actual date on which it was written.
- To affix a later date to than the real one: as, to
postdate a contract (that is, to date it as if, for instance, it were made six months later than the actual date). - To date afterward; give a previous date to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To date after the real time.
- transitive verb To affix a date to after the event.
- noun A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.
- adjective Made or done after the date assigned.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To occur after an event or
time ; to exist later on in time - verb transitive To assign an effective date to a
document or action later than the actual date
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be later in time
- verb establish something as being later relative to something else
Etymologies
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Examples
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All written texts in Náhuatl naturally postdate the Spanish Conquest after which the Franciscans taught the Indians the art of writing their own language in alphabetical form.
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If we return to the Limbo and Nkukutu sites introduced earlier to examine the strata that postdate the EIA-Urewe/Lelesu/pre-Kwale eras there is a pattern similar to that found at Kivinja.
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All written texts in Náhuatl naturally postdate the Spanish Conquest after which the Franciscans taught the Indians the art of writing their own language in alphabetical form.
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Following these trends, which postdate the interest in female identity, a growing number of artists began to explore their identities as Jews.
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The stories about Jesus' birth likewise postdate Mark, and thus Paul.
What Do You Say That I Did? James F. McGrath 2009
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However, all of these texts postdate the rise of later Pyrrhonism itself, and none of them contains anything like the level of detail of the Aristocles passage; there is no particular reason to suppose that any of them represents a genuine understanding of Pyrrho as distinct from the later Pyrrhonists.
Picnic 2009
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But since these comments postdate the rise of the later Pyrrhonist movement, there is often room for suspicion as to whether they reflect genuine information about Pyrrho himself, as opposed to the later philosophy that took his name.
Picnic 2009
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Otherwise however there is an alluring semantic and phonetic link between the two that would postdate the etymology that many Nostraticists provide.
Semitic and IE in the Neolithic: How intensive was the language contact? 2008
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Otherwise however there is an alluring semantic and phonetic link between the two that would postdate the etymology that many Nostraticists provide.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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In this respect they are like the individual souls, which, since they pre-exist and postdate the particulars they inhabit, are not and cannot be individuated by them.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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