Foredate (Verb)
Meaning
Establish something as being earlier relative to something else.
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The new evidence foredates the previously accepted origins of the ancient city by several centuries.
- The discovery foredates the initial theory regarding the species' evolutionary timeline.
- The recently found manuscript foredates the supposed earliest known example of the literary work.
- The newly uncovered proof foredates the prior belief about the technology's development process.
- The archaeological find foredates the previously established age of the settlement by nearly a thousand years.