DATE (3)

Date, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dating.] [[Cf. F. dater. See 2d Date.]] 1. 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. 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.
☞ 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.