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.
Note: 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.
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.
Note: 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 {Ph[oe]nix
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} (Zo["o]l.), a bivalve shell, or
its inhabitant, of the genus {Pholas}, and allied genera.
See {Pholas}.
The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the
French arms. --E. Everett.