- Dated
- 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.
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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]
Note: 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.