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Antedate
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Antedate
The practice of placing a date that has already passed on a contract or a check. On its own, this does not invalidate or negatively impact the contract or check, but it may affect how long it remains valid. For example, one may sign a 12-month contract on February 1 but antedate it to January 1. Because the contract then states that it expires 12 months from January 1, it has effectively become an 11-month contract. See also: Post-Date.
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Of the six hundred illustrative quotations already added to the dictionary database to date from ECCO, around one third represent antedatings of the first-known occurrence of a word or sense previously recorded in the OED.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: the words and images of history by Shapiro, Fred R. / Verbatim
Perhaps the most spectacular antedating I have found through legal database searching is the phrase politically correct.
The politically correct US Supreme Court and the Motherfucking Texas ... by Shapiro, Fred R. / Verbatim
 
 
 
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