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dated, ppl. a.|ˈdeɪtɪd|
[f. date v. (and n.2) + -ed.]
1. Marked or inscribed with a date.
1731Pope Ep. Burlington 135 To all their dated Backs he turns you round; These Aldus printed, those Du Süeil has bound. 1881H. B. Wheatley Cath. Angl. Pref. p. ix, The Catholicon is specially valuable as a dated Dictionary.
†2. Having a fixed date or term. Obs.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. ii. vi, The loathsome circle of my dated life. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 18 b, That can endow your names with neuer dated glory. 1718D'Urfey Grecian Heroine iii. ii. in New Opera's (1721) 122 His dated time comes on.
3. Belonging to or characteristic of a particular period; bearing evidence of its (or one's) date or period; old-fashioned, outdated. colloq.
1900F. H. Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel ii. 53 It is a dated society, and it is a dated woman, not the woman of all time. 1926Atlantic Monthly June 769/1 Another newspaper sent out a man who, it happened, was ‘dated’ in his reportorial training. He..got the facts. 1944Burlington Mag. Dec. 312/2 It is this meticulous realism which makes his figures appear so peculiarly ‘dated’. 1954Koestler Invis. Writing i. ii. 28 The orthodox ‘proletarian’ literature of the 'thirties appears to-day shallow and dated. 1962Oxford Mail 19 Feb. 6/5 Much of the music has a dated air. 1970Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 6/5 A great many I saw at the races were still wearing dated, conventional two-piece outfits—a bit too long, a bit too dowdy. |