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. 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]