v. t. [ L. abnodatus, p. p. of abnodare; ab + nodus knot. ] To clear (tress) from knots. [ R. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- not + caudate. ] Tailless. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accommodated p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating ] [ L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See Mode. ] 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. “They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare. ] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [ Archaic ] Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Suitably; fitly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fitness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;. &unr_;. a short cloak. ] (Zool.) Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ad to + nodus a knot. ] (Her.) Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S. Cussans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anticipation. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Antedated; p. pr. & vb. n. Antedating. ] 1. To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; ; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To precede in time. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To anticipate; to make before the true time. [ 1913 Webster ]

And antedate the bliss above. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to make effective from an earlier date; to make retroactive. The increase in tax was backdated to January.
Syn. -- back-date [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to affix a date earlier than the present date; -- sometimes done for fraudulent purposes. Opposite of postdate.
Syn. -- back-date; predate; antedate. [ PJC ]

Backdate is sometimes used incorrectly for postdate.

a. [ Pref. bi- + caudate. ] Two-tailed; bicaudal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See pref. Bi-, and Cuspidate. ] Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bifidatus. ] See Bifid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Candidatus, n. (because candidates for office in Rome were clothed in a white toga.) fr. candidatus clothed in white, fr. candiduslittering, white: cf. F. candidat. ] One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Candidacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. cauda tail. ] Having a tail; having a terminal appendage like a tail. Opposite of acaudate. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. chlamydatus dressed in a military cloak. See Chlamys. ] (Zool.) Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. R. Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. commodatum thing lent, loan. ] (Scots Law) A gratuitous loan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consolidatus, p. pr. of consolidare to make firm; con- + solidare to make firm; solidus solid. See Solid, and cf. Consound. ] Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentleman [ should learn to ride ] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Consolidated p. pr. & vb. n. Consolidating ] 1. To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm. [ 1913 Webster ]

He fixed and consolidated the earth. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consolidating numbers into unity. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surg.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [ R. ]

Syn. -- To unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying. [ 1913 Webster ]

In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. 1. Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [ in 1715 ] consolidated. Rees. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mass of partially consolidated mud. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of the civil list, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cor, cordis, heart. ] (Bot.) Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a cordate form. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. curvus bent + E. caudate. ] (Zool.) Having a curved or crooked tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make pointed or sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. cuspidatus, p. p. of cuspidare to make pointed, fr. cuspis. See Cusp. ] Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ F. datte, L. dactylus, fr. Gr. &unr_;, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 (Diospyros Lotus). --
Date shell, or
Date fish (Zool.), a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. date, LL. data, fr. L. datus given, p. p. of dare to give; akin to Gr. &unr_;, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And bonds without a date, they say, are void. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Assigned end; conclusion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Given or assigned length of life; dyration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Good luck prolonged hath thy date. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through his life's whole date. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ We may say dated at or from a place. [ 1913 Webster ]

The letter is dated at Philadephia. G. T. Curtis. [ 1913 Webster ]

You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms. E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. that can be given a date. Opposite of undatable. [ Narrower terms: dated ]
Syn. -- datable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a concrete and dateable happening C. W. Shumaker

adj. 1. marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
Syn. -- outmoded; passé. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. bearing a date; as, dated and stamped documents. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Without date; having no fixed time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. not having a social companion for an occasion; as, to be dateless for the prom. [ PJC ]

. The hypothetical line on the surface of the earth fixed by international or general agreement as a boundary on one side of which the same day shall have a different name and date in the calendar from its name and date on the other side. Also called International Date Line. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

☞ Speaking generally, the date line coincides with the meridian 180° from Greenwich. It deflects between north latitudes 80° and 45°, so that all Asia lies to the west, all North America, including the Aleutian Islands, to the east of the line; and between south latitudes 12° and 56°, so that Chatham Island and the Tonga group lie to the west of it. A vessel crossing this line to the westward sets the date forward by one day, as from Sunday to Monday. A vessel crossing the line to the eastward sets the date back by one day, as from Monday to Sunday. Hawaii has the same day name as San Francisco; Manila, the same day name as Australia, and this is one day later than the day of Hawaii. Thus when it is Monday May 1st at San Francisco it is Tuesday may 2d at Manila. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who dates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. denudatus, p. p. of denudare. See Denude. ] To denude. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Deo to God (Deus God) + datum thing given. ] A gift or offering to God. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Chem.) To deoxidize. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depredated p. pr. & vb. n. Depredating ] [ L. depraedatus, p. p. of depraedari to plunder; de- + praedari to plunder, praeda plunder, prey. See Prey. ] To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dilapidated p. pr. & vb. n. Dilapidating ] [ L. dilapidare to scatter like stones; di- = dis- + lapidare to throw stones, fr. lapis a stone. See Lapidary. ] 1. To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impair by waste and abuse; to squander. [ 1913 Webster ]

The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deserted and dilapidated buildings. Cooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dilucidatus, p. p. of dilucidare. ] To elucidate. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + accommodate. ] To put to inconvenience; to incommode. [ R. ] Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dis- + commodatus, p. p. of commodare to make fit or suitable, fr. commodus fit, commodious. See Commodious, and cf. Discommode. ] To discommode. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]