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<hw>Date</hw>, <tt>n.</tt><ety>[F. <ets>datte</ets>, L. <ets>dactylus</ets>, fr. Gr. <ets><?/</ets>, prob. not the same word as <ets><?/</ets> finger, but of Semitic origin.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.</def>

<note>&hand; This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel.</note>

<cs><mcol><col>Date palm</col>, &or; <col>Date tree</col></mcol> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>the genus of palms which bear dates, of which common species is <spn>Ph\'d2nix dactylifera</spn>.</cd> See <spn>Illust</spn>. -- <col>Date plum</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>the fruit of several species of <spn>Diospyros</spn>, including the American and Japanese persimmons, and the European lotus (<spn>D. Lotus</spn>).</cd> -- <mcol><col>Date shell</col>, &or; <col>Date fish</col></mcol> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus <spn>Pholas</spn>, and allied genera. See <er>Pholas</er>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Date</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>date</ets>, LL. <ets>data</ets>, fr. L. <ets>datus</ets> given, p.p. of <ets>dare</ets> to give; akin to Gr. <ets><?/</ets>, OSlaw. <ets>dati</ets>, Skr. <ets>d\'be</ets>. Cf. <er>Datum</er>, <ets>Dose</ets>, <er>Dato</er>, <er>Die</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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>as, the <ex>date</ex> of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin</as>. etc.</def>

<blockquote>And bonds without a <b>date</b>, they say, are void. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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>as, the <ex>date</ex> of a battle</as>.</def>

<blockquote>He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fixed the <b>dates</b> of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest. <i>Akenside.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Assigned end; conclusion.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>What Time would spare, from Steel receives its <b>date</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Given or assigned length of life; dyration.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Good luck prolonged hath thy <b>date</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

Through his life's whole <b>date</b>. <i>Chapman.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To bear date</col>, <cd>to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Date</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>dater</ets>. See 2d <er>Date</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; <as>as, to <ex>date</ex> a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; <as>as, to <ex>date</ex> the building of the pyramids</as>.</def>

<note>&hand; We may say <i>dated at</i> or <i>from</i> a place.</note>

<blockquote>The letter is <b>dated</b> at Philadephia. <i>G. T. Curtis.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter <b>dated from</b> Blois. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are <b>dated from</b> them. <i>M. Arnold.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Date</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with <i>from</i>.</def>

<blockquote>The Batavian republic <b>dates</b> from the successes of the French arms. <i>E. Everett.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Date"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without date; having no fixed time.</def>

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