Date , v. i. To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.
The Batavian
republic dates from
the successes of the French arms.
E.
Everett.
Date , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dating.]
[Cf. F. dater. See 2d Date.] 1. To note the time of writing or executing; to express in
an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed,
or a charter.
2. To note or fix the time
of, as of an event; to give the date
of; as, to
date the building of the pyramids.
&fist;
We may say
dated at or from a place.
The letter is dated at Philadephia.
G. T. Curtis. You
will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from
Blois.
Addison. In the countries of his jornal seems to have been
written; parts of it are dated from them.
M. Arnold.
Date (?), n. [F. date, LL. data, fr. L. datus given, p. p. of dare to give; akin
to Gr. &?;, OSlaw. dati, Skr. dā. Cf. Datum,
Dose, Dato, Die.]
1. That addition to a writing,
inscription, coin, etc.,
which specifies the time (as day,
month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or
executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.
And bonds without a date, they say, are
void.
Dryden.
2. The point of time
at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to
take place; a given point
of time; epoch; as, the
date of a battle.
He at once,
Down the long series of eventful time,
So fixed the
dates of being, so disposed
To every living soul of every kind
The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
Akenside.
3. Assigned end; conclusion. [R.]
What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date.
Pope. 4. Given or assigned length of life; dyration. [Obs.]
Good luck prolonged hath thy date.
Spenser.
Through his life's whole
date.
Chapman. To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of
a writing.
Date , n.[F. datte, L. dactylus, fr.
Gr. &?;, prob. not the same word as
da`ktylos finger, but of Semitic origin.]
(Bot.) The fruit of the
date palm; also, the date palm itself.
&fist; This fruit is
somewhat in the shape of
an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel.
Date palm, or Date tree (Bot.), the genus of
palms which bear dates, of which common species is Phœnix dactylifera. See
Illust. -- Date plum (Bot.), the fruit of
several species of Diospyros, including the American and Japanese persimmons, and the European lotus (D. Lotus). -- Date shell, or Date fish (Zoöl.), a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas.
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