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.