Question

antedate Nantucket Island has hundreds of beautifully preserved houses that antedate the Civil War. antedate*

Accepted Answer

(1) To date something (such as a check) with a date earlier than that of actual writing. (2) To precede in time. Dinosaurs antedated the first human beings by almost 65 million years, though this stubborn fact never used to stop cartoonists and screenwriters from having the two species inhabit the same story line. Dictionary editors are constantly noticing how the oral use of a word may antedate its first appearance in print by a number of years. Antedating a check or a contract isn't illegal unless it's done for the purpose of fraud (the same is true of its opposite, postdating).

word	antedate
definition	(1) To date something (such as a check) with a date earlier than that of actual writing. (2) To precede in time.
eg_sentence	Nantucket Island has hundreds of beautifully preserved houses that antedate the Civil War.
explanation	Dinosaurs antedated the first human beings by almost 65 million years, though this stubborn fact never used to stop cartoonists and screenwriters from having the two species inhabit the same story line. Dictionary editors are constantly noticing how the oral use of a word may antedate its first appearance in print by a number of years. Antedating a check or a contract isn't illegal unless it's done for the purpose of fraud (the same is true of its opposite, postdating).
IPA	antedate*

Antedate Date Check Earlier Actual Writing Precede Time