To place a prior date on a legal document, statement or check. also called backdate.
be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
establish something as being earlier relative to something else
To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
A term used to describe the dating of a draft earlier than the date on which the drawer signs and completes the draft.
To date back; retroactively. To date a document to a time before it was written.