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afterdated

afterdated adjective: postdated.

Adjective

afterdated (comparative more afterdated, superlative most afterdated)

  1. postdated
    • The result is, that the shares of Elizabeth and William Arthur, who died in the testator's lifetime, lapsed and fell into the residue, the will being brought within the operation of the Wills Act by force of the afterdated codicil.1858, The Weekly Reporter, volume 7, page 368
    • His afterdated Commission as Lieutenant, signed by Sir George Arthur on June lst, 1838, hangs in the hall at Colborne Lodge and on the 7th of December he had led the right wing of the scouting party up Yonge Street to Montgomery's Tavern to attack the rebels; […]1911, Annual Report and Transaction of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto

Antonyms of afterdated

Forms of afterdated

comparativemore afterdated
superlativemost afterdated
alternative formafter-dated

Origin of afterdated

From after- + dated.

Questions about afterdated

What does afterdated mean?
Afterdated means postdated.
What part of speech is afterdated?
Afterdated is an adjective.

Words near afterdated in the dictionary

  1. aftercrops
  2. aftercurrent
  3. aftercurrents
  4. afterdamp
  5. afterdamps
  6. afterdated
  7. afterdays
  8. afterdeal
  9. afterdeals
  10. afterdeck
  11. afterdecks

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