Antedating (in) the Oxford English Dictionary.

The article presents comparative analyses of the 1989 and 2022 revised editions of the "Oxford English Dictionary," focusing on the antedating of entries. It discusses the incidence of revised earliest dates of bibliographical adjustments, number of entries revised with near antedates, longer antedatings, antedatings attributed to the availability of high-quality historical text databases, and revisions to the 1989 edition earliest citations by quarterly update and original earliest date.