Dictionary entry

Date (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

☞ 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.