Date

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Assigned end; conclusion.

II. Date ·noun Given or assigned length of life; dyration.

III. Date ·noun The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

IV. Date ·vi To have beginning; to Begin; to be dated or reckoned;

— with from.

V. Date ·vt To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.

VI. Date ·noun 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.

VII. Date ·vt 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.

VIII. Date ·noun 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.

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