Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dated"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Date \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.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

dated
adj 1: marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted
past
2: bearing a date; "dated and stamped documents"


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