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Date   /deɪt/   Listen
noun
Date  n.  (Bot.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself. Note: This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel.
Date palm, or Date tree (Bot.), the genus of palms which bear dates, of which common species is Phoenix dactylifera.
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.


Date  n.  
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. "And bonds without a date, they say, are void."
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. "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."
3.
Assigned end; conclusion. (R.) "What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date."
4.
Given or assigned length of life; dyration. (Obs.) "Good luck prolonged hath thy date." "Through his life's whole date."
To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; said of a writing.


verb
Date  v. t.  (past & past part. dated; pres. part. dating)  
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. Note: We may say dated at or from a place. "The letter is dated at Philadephia." "You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois." "In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them."


Date  v. i.  To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; with from. "The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms."





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... natural to people unable to read and write, she related the most minute particulars—the names of the village, the nurse, the child's Christian name, and the exact date of everything which ...
— File No. 113 • Emile Gaboriau
... months from the time when we emerged from the marshes of Kor, and the very next day managed to catch one of the steamboats that run round the Cape to England. Our journey home was a prosperous one, and we set our foot on the quay at Southampton exactly two years from the date of our departure upon our wild and seemingly ridiculous quest, and I now write these last words with Leo leaning over my shoulder in my old room in my college, the very same into which some two-and-twenty years ago my poor friend Vincey came stumbling ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard
... is Paula, an illustrious Roman lady of rank and wealth, whose remarkable friendship for Saint Jerome, in the latter part of the fourth century, has made her historical. If to her we do not date the first great change in the social relations of man with woman, yet she is the most memorable example that I can find of that exalted sentiment which Christianity called out in the intercourse of the sexes, and which has done more for the elevation of society ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV • John Lord
... exhibitions which will be formed in connection with the Vienna Universal Exhibition is to be one showing what steps have been taken since 1851 (the date of the first London Exhibition) in the utilization of substances previously regarded as waste. On the one hand will be shown the waste products in all the industrial processes included in the forthcoming ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh
... wherein he had spoken of the date of his daughter and son-in-law's visit had been written several days previous to this evening, and since that, news might have come from them, speaking of some change of plan, ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth


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