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   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”.
   
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   ☞ We may say dated at or from a place.
   
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   The letter is dated at Philadephia. G. T. Curtis.
   
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   You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. Addison.
   
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   In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them. M. Arnold.
   
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   dated adj.
   1. marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
   
   Syn. -- outmoded; passé.
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   2. bearing a date; as, “dated and stamped documents”.
   
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