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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  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.  --G.  T. 
  Curtis. 
 
  You  will  be  suprised,  I  don't  question,  to  find 
  among  your  correspondencies  in  foreign  parts  a 
  letter  dated  from  Blois.  --Addison. 
 
  In  the  countries  of  his  jornal  seems  to  have  been 
  written;  parts  of  it  are  dated  from  them  --M. 
  Arnold. 

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