daten.1
/deɪt/, U.S. /deɪt/ 1. The edible fruit of the date palm (see sense 2), an oblong drupe with a single hard seed (or stone) and sweet pulp, which forms an important food crop in North Africa and western Asia and is frequently dried and exported.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > date
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dactyl1483
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > date
datec1300
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satchel-date1633
c1300 St. Thomas Apostle (Laud) 115 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 380 A ȝeord of palm cam in is hond..þe ȝeord was ful of Dates.
c1330 (?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch.) in J. Zupitza Guy of Warwick (1891) 632 (MED) Fykes, reisyn, dates.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 307 It is schape as it were þe stoon of a date.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 30 Palme treesse berand dates.
a1500 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 269 (MED) When..laurell ber cherys..And okes ber dates.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Diijv A tree..which bringeth foorth dates lyke vnto the Palme tree.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxii. 202 Dates are usually put into stued broaths..and restorative cullices.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 136 Dates..serve for the Subsistence of more than an hundred Millions of Souls.
1792 R. Heron tr. C. Niebuhr Trav. Arabia I. vi. v. 190 Some Arabs, who came to see us, offered us fresh dates, which were yellow, but scarcely ripe.
1850 Horticulturalist Oct. 175/2 The dates that come from the interior of the Empire, or from the borders of the Desert, are the finest I have ever seen from any country.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 183 The best dates come to us from Tunis, viâ Marseilles.
1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 121 A box of fresh dates or pulled figs, a carton of almonds and raisins, or a little screw bottle of large black French plums [etc.].
1940 Times 8 Oct. 4/3 They are camped across a thousand miles of desert, some under palms now heavy with sticky yellow dates.
2007 M. Bittman How to cook Everything Vegetarian 424/1 Fresh dates are in season from late summer to the middle of fall, and they're sticky-sweet, tender, and juicy.
2. A tall palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, native to and cultivated chiefly in North Africa and western Asia, having a crown of pinnate leaves and bearing dates in large clusters (see sense 1). Also (usually with distinguishing word): any of various other trees of the genus Phoenix, some of which are grown as ornamentals.wild date: see the first element.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > date-palm
phoenixOE
datec1390
date treea1425
date palm1625
wild date1866
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > date-palm
datec1390
phoenixa1398
date treea1425
date palm1625
wild date1866
c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) l. 89 (MED) Þer weore growyng so grene Þe Date wiþ þe Damesene.
c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) l. 36 The boxe, the beche, and the larel-tre, The date, also the damyse.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 29 The Toddy Tree is not unlike the Date or Palmeto.
1757 Gentleman’s Mag. Feb. 81/1 No more the date, with snowy blossoms crown'd.
1856 tr. A. Vulliet Geogr. of Nature 63 The date is a tree of the family of palms, whose trunk..often rises to more than 100 feet.
1891 Pop. Gardening Apr. 136/2 All the Dates growing in the United States previous to this, are seedlings.
1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 44/1 The story of dates is a truly fascinating one and today much work is being done in our own country in the way of propagating the growth of this wonderful food tree.
1955 C. G. Wilson Alice Eastwood’s Wonderland xv. 129 She saw redwood trees,..Canary Island dates and other palms—all growing from seeds.
2002 T. MacCubbin & G. Tasker Florida Gardener’s Guide (rev. ed.) 120 Potassium deficiency in Pygmy Dates shows up as yellow spots or flecks or banding on the lower, older fronds.
2008 C.-C. T. Chao & R. R. Krueger in J. Jules & R. E. Paull Encycl. Fruit & Nuts 141/1 The date can grow in very hot and dry climates, and is relatively tolerant to salty and alkaline soils.
3. Chiefly with distinguishing word. Any of several varieties of plum ( Prunus domestica). See also date plum n. 1. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > other types of plum
bullacea1375
myxe?1440
prunelloa1450
bullace-fruit1530
wheat-plum1538
wheaten plum1542
pear plum1573
finger plum1577
perdrigon1582
damson plum1584
apple-plum1601
bullace-plum1608
amber plum1629
Christian1629
queen mother1629
cinnamon-plum1664
date1664
Orleans1674
Chickasaw plum1760
blue gage1764
golden drop1772
beach-plum1785
quetsch1839
egg-plum1859
hog plum1863
bladder-plum1869
prune1872
Carlsbad plum1885
apricot plum1893
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > other types of
white plumc1330
bullacea1375
myxe?1440
prunelloa1450
bullace-fruit1530
horse plum1530
plum1530
wheat-plum1538
wheaten plum1542
choke-plum1556
pear plum1573
finger plum1577
scad1577
skeg1601
merchant1602
bullace-plum1608
malacadonian1608
prune plum1613
date plum1626
mussel plum1626
amber plum1629
black plum1629
primordian1629
queen mother1629
winter crack1629
myrobalan1630
Christian1651
Monsieur's plum1658
cinnamon-plum1664
date1664
primordial1664
Orleans1674
mirabelle1706
myrobalan plum1708
Mogul1718
mussel1718
Chickasaw plum1760
blue gage1764
magnum bonum1764
golden drop1772
beach-plum1785
sweet plum1796
winesour1836
wild plum1838
quetsch1839
egg-plum1859
Victoria1860
cherry plum1866
bladder-plum1869
prune1872
sour plum1874
Carlsbad plum1885
horse-jug1886
French plum1939
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 72 in Sylva Plums. Imperial, Blew, White Dates.
1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) at August You have these Plumbs, viz. The Imperial Blue, white Dates, yellow Pear-plum, black Pear-plum.., Turkey-plum, and the Jane-plum.
1911 U. P. Hedrick et al. Plums N.Y. iv. 428 Date. Domestica... During the four centuries in which this variety has been cultivated in Europe numerous strains have arisen.
a1943 L. Hart in D. Hart & R. Kimball Compl. Lyrics L. Hart (1986) iii. vi. 208 The yellow Date is a long yellow Plum, and much better tasted than the white.
4. British slang. Chiefly as an affectionate term of reproof: a foolish or comical person, esp. in soppy date. [It is not certain that this shows the same word. Compare dateless adj. 4, although the semantic overlap may be accidental. Quot. 1914 is from a passage in which a Frenchman becomes better acquainted with two young women in London; date is apparently intended as a term belonging to their vocabulary rather than to his. (This appears to be supported by quot. 1923, from a glossary of English slang for French speakers.)]
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > giddy, light-headed
light head1536
cock-brain1556
fiddler1591
wild goose1597
barmy-froth1598
knick-knacker1622
nugator1656
shatter-pate1775
feather-brain1776
whirl-brain1817
feather-head1834
date1914
bubblehead1916
airhead1971
1914 W. L. George Making of Englishman iii. v. 302 These girls were used to the foreigner... I could fall into gallicisms now, and merely be called a ‘date’.
1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 101 You date! que tu es drôle!
1935 ‘G. Ingram’ Cockney Cavalcade iv. 55 A kid like that ought not to talk about love at her age, the soppy little date.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren iii. 45 They say to him ‘You're a soppy date.’
2009 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 26 Sept. 14 I just enjoy the fact that we can share the moment together. Yes, I am a soppy date.
Compounds
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a. General attributive (esp. in sense 1).
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?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 572 A dactilare made to þe likkenesse of date kirnelles.
1652 tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote (new ed.) ii. v. f. 146v Ile clad him like a Date-leafe.
1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone Descr. Nature Four-footed Beasts ii. i. 24/2 For their meat, they devour all that the earth yeelds; especially grasse.., barly, hirse, wheat, acornes, date-kernels.
1712 tr. A. Reelant Life Mahomet 20 in Four Treat. Mahometans He thrust into the Earth some Date-Kernels, cover'd over with his spittle.
1791 C. Hamilton tr. Hedàya IV. xli. 58 Two men enter into a compact of gardening, to this effect, that the one shall deliver over to the other his date orchard.
1850 Lady's Newspaper 13 July 13/2 We never heard or tasted date pudding, but do not see why it should not be very good, made as a prune pudding in this way, using dates for prunes.
1880 A. Poulet Treat. Foreign Bodies I. 204 We should, also, always ask them whether they have been in the habit of swallowing cherry, plum, and date pits.
1919 J. R. Smith World's Food Resources xx. 422 Even milch cows in Oman, Arabia, are fed principally on dried fish and refuse date kernels.
1939 San Antonio (Texas) Light 19 Nov. (Amer. Weekly section) 21/2 Plainer steamed puddings or steamed sponge recipes may be highlighted with a natural date syrup.
1999 L. R. King O Jerusalem (2009) 381 He spat a date pip into his hand.
2006 J. S. Sidhu in Y. H. Hui et al. Handbk. Fruits & Fruit Processing 407/2 Date paste and date fruit chunks can also be added to a number of food products such as baked goods and ice cream.
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date fruit n.
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1751 J. Hill Hist. Materia Medica 786 When the Fruit is perfectly ripened, it is of a roundish but somewhat oblong Shape, and much resembles a date Fruit.
1879 C. M. Buckton Town & Window Gardening xiv. 114 The working people, as I told you, in these countries almost live on the Date fruit.
1927 Times 12 Oct. 15/5 From steak to plum, from bird to oyster, nothing comes amiss to it—date-fruit and ginger-root, luscious fig and bitter lemon.
2010 P. Gross Superfruits ii. 100 The date fruit consists of 70 percent carbohydrates (mostly sugars), making it one of the most calorie-rich, high-nutrient fruits available.
date grove n.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. v. i. 92 Vineyards and date tree groves.]
1780 E. Irwin Series Adventures Voy. Red-sea ii. 227 The boats glided along their curling surface: the date-groves rung with the amorous cooings of a thousand doves, and the cattle lowed in the distant dale.
1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 85 The river..is lined with stately date-groves.
1934 P. Bowles Let. Mar. in In Touch (1994) 131 An Arab..tried to convince me that life would be quite enough for me if I would be content to settle down there, take a little house, and buy some date-groves.
2005 Independent (Nexis) 27 Jan. 30 A Chinook helicopter was shot down by a shoulder-launched heat-seeking missile fired from a date grove near Fallujah.
date tree n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > date-palm
phoenixOE
datec1390
date treea1425
date palm1625
wild date1866
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > date-palm
datec1390
phoenixa1398
date treea1425
date palm1625
wild date1866
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 1364 Fyges and many a date tree [Fr. datier] There wexen.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song of Sol. vii. 7 Thy stature is like a date tre.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiii. iv. 385 Date trees love a light and sandie ground.
1720 E. Lloyd tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia II. v. 69 The Date-Trees will bear near two Hundred Mans [Fr. Mans] of Fruit at a Time.
1844 Gardener & Pract. Florist 3 557/1 The first and best known, and the most useful of all the palms, is, undoubtedly, the Date Tree.
1901 Meehan’s Monthly Aug. 119/1 If the States or United States are to experiment with date growing, it would be far better to import an experienced date grower, as well as the date trees.
2009 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 5 Dec. 22 We had over 10 acres of land, over a hundred coconut and date trees and a rice paddy.
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date-bearer n. a date palm which bears fruit; a female date palm.
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1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 225 The sky palely blue through the groinery of countless date-bearers.
1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man vii. 242 The garden plants, the date-bearers, were females, the desert plants were males.
2007 W. T. Vollmann Poor People (2008) vi. 114 I remember how some palmeros in Imperial Valley used to complain about the hundred-foot date-bearers they scaled.
date brandy n. [compare date wine n.] an alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented sap of the date palm.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy not from grapes > others
fool rack1673
date brandy1714
abricotine1888
prunelle1897
barack1936
1714 A. Philips tr. Thousand & One Days I. 283 Three great Bottles of Camez and of Date-Brandy [Fr. de l'eau-de-vie de dattes].
1827 Forget me Not 114 Date-brandy was not to his taste.
2010 G. Robb Parisians 180 They talked to the cafetiers and sat down at one of the Tunisian cafés to drink a glass of date brandy.
date disease n. rare the protozoal disease cutaneous leishmaniasis; cf. oriental sore n. at oriental adj. and n. Compounds 2.Chiefly as a conscious translation.
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1841 C. W. Bell in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1840 Sci. Reports 162 This disease..frequently mentioned by travellers..under the names of Aleppo button, Bagdad boil and Date mark... In Arabic it is called Khorma [lit. ‘date’], or the date disease.
1911 Jrnl. Cutaneous Dis. 29 618 Oriental sore... The Algerian Sahara, where it is known as..‘Dous el kourmati’ and ‘Bess el temeur’ (‘the date disease’).
date fever n. now rare and historical dengue fever (see dengue n.). [The semantic motivation is unclear. The disease may be so called on account of the resemblance of the characteristic ulcers to dates; however, compare quot. 1875, which suggests a connection with the season of the date harvest. The Arabic passage translated in quot. 1836 does not contain a morphologically similar compound, and many of the Arabic terms by which the disease is known have nothing to do with dates.]
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fever hectica1398
emitrichie1398
hectic1398
etisie1527
emphysode fever1547
frenzy-fever1613
purple fever1623
prunella1656
marcid fever1666
remittent1693
feveret1712
rheumatic fever1726
milk fever1739
stationary fever1742
febricula1746
milky fever1747
camp-disease1753
camp-fever1753
sun fever1765
recurrent fever1768
rose fever1782
tooth-fever1788
sensitive fever1794
forest-fever1799
white leg1801
hill-fever1804
Walcheren fever1810
Mediterranean fever1816
malignant1825
relapsing fever1828
rose cold1831
date fever1836
rose catarrh1845
Walcheren ague1847
mountain fever1849
mill fever1850
Malta fever1863
bilge-fever1867
Oroya fever1873
hyperpyrexia1875
famine-fever1876
East Coast fever1881
spirillum fevera1883
kala azar1883
black water1884
febricule1887
urine fever1888
undulant fever1896
rabbit fever1898
rat bite fever1910
Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911
sandfly fever1911
tularaemia1921
sodoku1926
brucellosis1930
Rift Valley fever1931
Zika1952
Lassa fever1970
Marburg1983
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > other eruptive diseases
gutta rosaceac1400
spotted death1623
spotted fever1623
horse-pox1656
flock-pox1672
hog pox1676
spotted pestilence1783
salt rheum1809
molluscum1813
molluscum contagiosum1817
grease-pox1822
horn-pox1822
date fever1836
glass-pock1858
molluscum sebaceum1866
verruga1873
furunculosis1886
gutta rubea1886
flannel rash1888
vaccinide1889
rubeoloid1893
pox1897
veld sores1898
spotted sickness1899
sweat-rash1899
synanthema1899
sporotrichosis1908
alastrim1911
pseudoxanthoma elasticum1933
monkeypox1960
scleromyxœdema1964
yusho1969
1836 J. Reynolds tr. Jalāl al-Dīn, al-Suyūtī Hist. Temple of Jerusalem x. 299 The day when the Prophet was seized with the date fever.
1875 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 508 At Port Said..it [sc. dengue] was epidemic every year at the season of the date-harvest, and thus acquired the name of date-fever [Ger. den Namen ‘Fievre des dattes’].
1905 tr. H. Nothnagel Encycl. Pract. Med. X. 721 Its regular occurrence at the time of the date harvest gave it [sc. dengue] the name of ‘date fever’ [Ger. Dattelfieber] in Port Said and Arabia.
date fish n. [compare Italian pesce dattero (16th cent.)] North American (now rare) a bivalve mollusc that bores into rock or wood; esp. a date mussel.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Mytilidae > genus Lithodomus > member of
date-shell1606
date fish1829
sea date-shell1858
1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. 81 He is now mostly employed in procuring date fish.
1884 E. Ingersoll in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 707 Some cousins (Zirphæa crispata, Platydon cancellatus, etc.) are esteemed delicacies on the coast of California under the name of ‘Date-fish’.
1898 S. R. Franklin Memories Rear-admiral xx. 240 The rock is then broken and the date-fish is removed.
1998 L. A. T. Farkas Bury my Bones Amer. iv. 28/1 (table) Bougee—date fish with mushrooms.
date mussel n. any of various marine mussels constituting the genus Lithophaga (family Mytilidae), having long narrow shells with parallel sides, and boring into submarine rocks by means of acid secretions.
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1837 T. G. Bradford Murray's Encycl. Geogr. (rev. ed.) III. 236 Two new species of Modiolæ or Date-mussels..have recently been brought from Rio de Janeiro.
1935 Queenslander 25 July 2/3 I have seen a date mussel bore its way 12in. into a rock in less than 20 minutes.
1963 Science 1 Mar. 849/2 The true mussels.., which include the numerous species of date mussels (Lithophaga), are restricted to calcareous rock.
2005 D. Stannard Fishing up Moon i. 24 One Italian specialty employs date mussels which actually bore into the rock of the seashore.
date palm n. any of several palms of the genus Phoenix; spec. P. dactylifera, which bears dates (see sense 2).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > date-palm
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datec1390
date treea1425
date palm1625
wild date1866
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > date-palm
datec1390
phoenixa1398
date treea1425
date palm1625
wild date1866
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. ix. vi. 1739 (margin) Many sorts of Palmes, the Coco, the Date-Palme, the Wine-Palme, or taddie, &c. besides these Reed-Palmes.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Palma The Date Palm is of very slow Growth with us, but is easily produc'd from Seeds, taken out of the Fruit.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile iii. 57 A dense, wide-spreading forest of stately date-palms.
1926 Times 10 Aug. p. xviii/5 The exotic splendour of these date palms, the luxuriance of their brilliant foliage, contrast with a rosy-golden soil.
2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees vii. 149 In some species, like the date palm (Phoenix), the inflorescence grows from between the leaves and hangs out from the side of the tree.
date-shell n. a date mussel; (also) the shell of this.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Mytilidae > genus Lithodomus > member of
date-shell1606
date fish1829
sea date-shell1858
1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth v. 40 While we offer to God as good payment, we do with the profane traueller thinke to please him with empty date-shelles.
1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 266 The ‘date-shell’ bores into corals, shells, and the hardest limestone rocks.
1924 C. E. R. Bucknill Sea Shells of N.Z. 90 Lithophaga truncata... Commonly known as the Date shell, this species is a rock-borer.
1999 A. Davidson Oxf. Compan. Food 245/2 The date-shell is not a mechanical borer. It makes its hole in the rock by applying to it an acid secretion.
date sugar n. sugar from the sap of the Indian wild date palm.
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1819 Trans. Lit. Soc. Bombay 1 138 The Arabs and Turks use the date sugar in many of their conserves.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 104 Date-sugar is not so much esteemed in India as that of the cane.
1999 Vegetarian Times May 62/2 Store sugar and date sugar tightly wrapped in a cool, dry pantry.
date wine n. wine made by fermenting the sap of the date palm; cf. palm wine n. at palm n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > non-grape and home-made wines > [noun] > palm-wine
nipa1588
palmetto wine1589
palm wine1598
sura1598
date wine1603
toddy?1611
tuba1704
pardon1705
pardon-wine1705
Palm1712
sagwire1792
itaa1832
tembo1850
tuak1852
palm-toddy1857
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 685 They who love wine, if they cannot meet with the liquor of the grape, use..a certeine drinke made of apples, named cydres or els date-wines [Fr. ou bien de cydre fait de pommes, ou des dattes].
1759 tr. M. Adanson Voy. Senegal 165 They likewise make a great deal of date wine [Fr. vin de palmier], which is very delicious.
1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece IX. ii. lxix. 47 The soldiers..procured plentiful supplies..of date-wine.
1998 H. Turtledove Between Rivers (1999) iii. 70 He also opened a small jar of date wine and let that pass from hand to hand among the peasants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
daten.2
/deɪt/, U.S. /deɪt/ 1. The time during which something lasts; period, season; duration; term of life or existence. Now rare (poetic in later use).
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the world > time > duration > [noun]
lengtha1240
date?1316
durationc1384
hautesse1399
quantity?a1425
periodc1475
tracta1513
allowance1526
continuance1530
wideness1535
continue1556
protense1590
countenance1592
stay1595
standing1600
dimension1605
longanimity1607
longinquity1607
insisture1609
existence1615
unprivationa1628
continuity1646
protension1654
measure1658
course1665
contention1666
propagation1741
protensity1886
?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) l. 972 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 310 Thah the sone croune bere The fader hueld is date here.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 1411 Neuere to thryue were to long a date.
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 421 So to perseuere and lastyn a long date.
a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) l. 205 (MED) Þe lengthe of my lyinge here, þat is a lewid date.
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 153 Miserablie finishinge the date of her dayse.
1580 H. Gifford Posie of Gilloflowers ii. sig. L.2v So that hope is the onely stay, on which my life dependes, Which if it once be tane away, my date of liuing ends.
1607 in J. Maidment Misc. Abbotsford Club (1837) 72 Reclaim my daithe, off lyiff prolong my daitt.
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe iv. 53 To lengthen out his date A day.
a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) I. 5 I..wish my hapless life a shorter date.
1782 W. Cowper Let. 11 Nov. (1981) II. 89 When the date of youth is once expired.
1850 W. R. Williams Relig. Progress iii. 66 This foreign land of earth, where he stays but for the brief date of this present life, and which he must quit at death.
1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems iii. vi Her [sc. a flower's] brief date.
1919 H. L. Koopman Hesperia iv. 124 Our kisses then shall have Their endless date of pure and sweetest joys.
2. A statement in a document, letter, book, or inscription, of the time (and often place) of enactment, writing, publication, manufacture, etc.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > appending a date to > date affixed
datec1384
dateline1810
c1384 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 230 (MED) The wych date of the seyd Endenture was in the feste of seynt Archunwolde the ȝere of kyng Richard the ij d. the vij d.
c1400 Newbattle Coll. MSS (Edinb. Reg. House) The dat, day..and place in the furst lyne contenet.
c1450 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 33 In þis writynge, þouȝ þer be no date.
1512 Act 4 Henry VIII c. 10 in Statutes of Realm (1817) III. 55 A paire of Indentures..the date wherof is the xijth daie of Aprill in the secound yere of your..reigne.
?1586 M. Hanmer Baptizing of Turke sig. E5v His letters bearing date the 15. of March, and in the yeare of great Iesu (so hee writeth) 1579.
1630 Ld. Dorchester in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 259 I have received your Letters of severall dates.
1680 J. Freeman Let. 17 May in B. Albyn Appeal to God & King (1697) 9/2 The said Benjamin Albyn had written two Letters effectually to his Mother under the date of the 3d of April last, and 13th Instant.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 320. ⁋4 A long Letter bearing Date the fourth Instant.
1750 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 Oct. (1966) II. 467 You will think me a great Rambler, being at present far distant from the date of my last Letter.
c1782 M. Wollstonecraft Let. (2003) 38 I find by the date of your letter that the honey moon, and the next moon too must be almost over.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 883 The policy should be dated... The insertion of a date may tend to the discovery of fraud.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 330 A three-halfpenny piece..bearing the date of 1599.
1872 G. M. Hopkins Further Lett. (1956) 118 I have overpassed your birthday and only been recalled to it now too late by seeing the date March 3 on a letter.
1909 Burlington Mag. July 211/2 The painting, long ago re-canvassed, bears the date of 1749.
1959 Boys' Life Apr. 56/2 Proof Coins are struck only at the Philadelphia Mint, and during the calendar year signified by the date on the coin.
2008 Leek (Staffs.) Post & Times (Nexis) 6 Aug. 3 I was amazed when I saw the dates on the postmarks.
3.
a. The particular day, month, or year of an event; the day of the month.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the date
date?a1400
epoch1761
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 47 Þat tyme he died..Þe date was a þousand & sextene mo.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. l. 269 In þe date of owre dryȝte, in a drye apprile, A þousande and thre hondreth tweis thretty & ten.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 9 Þe date when þis was writen..was iim ȝere before þe incarnacion of Criste.
a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) l. 196 (MED) So was þat play [sc. the Olympic games] iche fift ȝor continuet ay assiduely til þat Mary Ihesu bere, And hor date toke thay þerby.
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Diijv From the day of the date heereof, to the full terme and reuolution of seuen yeeres next ensuing.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. i. 22 His dayes and times are past, And my reliances on his fracted dates Haue smit my credit. View more context for this quotation
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) xxi. 59 When we find a Contest amongst Chronologers..in such a case, I have pitched on that Date..which seemed to me of greatest Probability.
1727 Banff Burgh Rec. in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1843) II. 182 The Council allow the Grammer schollars feriot and waccancie from the date hereof to the 20th Janry.
1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 74/2 When was it?—I only remember the sum: I do not remember the date.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila ii. i. 65 That within two weeks of this date thou bringest me..the keys of the city.
1893 Weekly Notes 28 68/2 Up to the date at which he received notice.
1948 D. Thomas Let. 7 Feb. (1987) 666 Alas! I lost my little notebook in which I had written down, at Virginia's invitation, the date of your party.
1993 R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1994) 38 The picture had my ma and da's names and the date they got married.
b. More vaguely: the time or period at which something happened or is to happen.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > time of occurrence
sitheOE
seasona1400
turna1400
datec1400
when1616
nick1645
whenabouts1898
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 540 Þe date of þe daye þe lorde con knaw.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 11 The date whan it was leyd in the erthe.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. D.iiiiv Yet was I neuer of your loue agreued, Nor neuer shall, while that my life doth last: But of hatyng my self, that date is past, And teares continual sore haue me weried.
1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman ii. 32 I would faine know..of what date they would have their Habits.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 33 From these..circumstances..the Duke's ruin took its date.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 8 Nor far remov'd the date, When commerce proudly flourish'd through the state.
1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 293 Up to this date, Burns was happy.
1850 R. Bell Ladder of Gold II. iii. i. 5 If it were not for the magnificent damask with which the windows were draped at the date of our narrative.
1914 Mariner's Mirror 4 49/2 About the date of the third Dutch War..the term ‘private man-of-war’ was certainly still used as it had been for long.
1993 New Scientist 3 Apr. 7/1 The date when people first entered America is hotly debated.
4. The period of time to which something (esp. an ancient artefact or structure) belongs; the age of a thing or person. Formerly also: †a person's date of birth (obsolete).
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > age or period of a thing
birthdaya1500
datea1571
era1646
epoch1655
vintage1929
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1039 Vchon in scrypture a name con plye, Of Israel barnez folewande her datez, Þat is to say, as her byrþ whatez.
a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 357 Ȝif two men ben of o date, whoever presentiþ first, shal be avaunsid bifore.
a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 329 I tuk on me bot to schaw sum notables & petegres with daitis of thir vj agis.
a1571 W. Haddon in A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. (1576) 415 This our common wealth, last in date, but first in price.
1622 C. Sibthorp Friendly Advt. Pretended Catholickes ii. i. 64 It is an Antiquitie of a later date, and it is not that most ancient Antiquitie, which Vincentius, and the rest of the ancient Fathers direct you unto.
1699 W. Nicolson Let. to Ralph Thoresby 17 July in J. Nichols Lett. (1809) I. 129 The best rules for distinguishing the date of MSS.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 419 I doubt however whether this Figure be not of a later Date..by the Meanness of the Workmanship.
1782 T. Pennant Journey Chester to London 217 Either the date of the rebuilding is wrong, or the Saxon or round-arched mode must have continued longer than is generally allowed.
1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 50 The Torres Vermejos, or vermilion towers..are of a date much anterior to the Alhambra.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 55 When his date Doubled her own.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xiii. 291 Rich in antiquities of Roman date.
1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) v. 168 The Trilobita were marine animals and their remains are numerous in palaeozoic rocks of Cambrian to Silurian date.
2001 Oxoniensia 65 284 The spur..is a prick spur of late Saxon or early medieval date.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > a limit, end, or term
endc1000
pointc1330
terma1398
datec1400
limec1420
period1554
full stopa1586
stopa1586
coda1836
mop1945
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 492 Þer is no date of hys godnesse.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 1410 Fer in age I am runne, & my lyues date Aprochith fast.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Q.iiv The dolefull dayes draw slowly to theyr date.
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 123 Salamone..cowld nocht for him self dispone Attoure his dait to leif a ȝeir.
1600 W. Raleigh Nimphs Reply in Englands Helicon sig. Aa2v But could youth last, and loue still breede, Had ioyes no date, nor age no neede.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xiv. sig. B4 Thy end is Truthes and Beauties doome and date . View more context for this quotation
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 363 What Time wou'd spare, from Steel receives its date.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 529 All has its date below; the fatal hour Was registered in Heaven ere time began.
1805 R. Southey Madoc (1807) II. xxvi. 70 The second Sun Then had its birth, and ran its round of years; Till having reached its date, it fell from heaven.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > a judgement, ruling
doomc825
judging1357
verdictc1386
determination1395
judgement?a1400
skillc1400
decision1467
date1488
arrest1509
resolution1545
pronouncement1593
resultance1610
decreea1642
placit1641
pronounce1641
placitum1649
vardy1738
deliverance1856
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 97 Quhat is fortune? Quha dryffis the dett so fast [v.r. drawis the dait]?
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 195 Is this thi dait? Sall thai ourcum ilkane? On our kynrent, deyr god, quhen will thow rew?
7. In plural. A particular person's years or dates of birth and death, given together; (also) the dates of the beginning and end of a particular period, event, etc. Chiefly with genitive or of.
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a1825 H. Fuseli Hist. Art in Schools of Italy in Life & Writings (1831) III. 401 His dates are from 1260 to 1301.
1893 H. B. Wheatley Lit. Blunders 165 One said he [sc. Purcell] was a German, born somewhere in the nineteenth century, which statement another confirmed by giving his dates as 1817-1846.
1899 Bay View Mag. June 396/1 Its dates are from July 20 to 29, inclusive, with such speakers as Bishop Charles H. Fowler.
1920 Tyler's Q. 171 He is buried at ‘Hurston’, where a tombstone preserves his dates.
1958 Listener 11 Dec. 1003/1 The E. Nesbit centenary—her dates were 1858 to 1924—has brought to the surface the very considerable undercurrent of enthusiasm for her children's stories.
1980 Antiquaries Jrnl. 60 107 The Later Upper Palaeolithic (L.U.P.), with suggested dates of 14,500–10,000 bp.
1991 Classical Q. 41 491 The dates of C. Iulius Romanus are known only approximately.
2006 M. Goffin Watkin Path vi. 45 His grave is surmounted by a Celtic cross above his name, his dates and, at his request, the solitary inscription Resurgam.
8. Originally U.S.
a. An appointment or engagement at a particular time; esp. a social activity or meeting with a person in whom one has a romantic interest; a romantic liaison.blind, double, hot, lunch date: see the first element.
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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > romantic appointment
rendezvous1697
date1885
date night1910
society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > social or romantic appointment or engagement
date1885
dating1921
blind date1925
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > engagement
tailyec1425
trystc1480
appointment1533
restipulation1595
pre-engagement1647
ingudgment1650
sponsion1677
engagement1806
commitment1837
date1885
booking1975
1885 E. W. Howe Myst. of Locks 187 If he'll make a date with me, I'll exchange stories with him.
1896 G. Ade Artie vii. 65 I s'pose the other boy's fillin' all my dates?
1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence xlvii. 203 He walked away as if he'd remembered he had a date.
1928 M. Baring Comfortless Mem. iii. 38 Mr. Donne can't come; he's got a date.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 vi. 147 I had a date last night with an eight-year-old, And she's a swinger just like me.
1989 J. Pielmeier Impassioned Embraces 33 He. Tomorrow night. Ten o'clock. Poop deck. She. It's a date.
2004 C. Hogan Town (2010) xviii. 143 I'm not clear on something. Is this work, or is this a date?
b. A person with whom one makes or has made an appointment or engagement at a particular time; esp. a person whom one meets as part of a romantic liaison.
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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > practice of going on dates > person with whom one has a date
date1925
lumber1966
society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > social or romantic appointment or engagement > person
blind date1925
date1925
1925 Amer. Speech 1 102/2 My date was late last evening.
1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye vii. 60 Stradlater was in the back, with his date, and I was in the front, with mine.
1973 E. E. Aldrin & W. Warga Return to Earth iv. 94 It involved placing your arm around the shoulder of your date then allowing your hand to slip surreptitiously down her arm and over.
2001 J. Wolcott Catsitters i. 9 As she leaned forward, her date reached over with his finger and playfully beeped her on the nose.
9. A theatrical or musical engagement or performance; a place where such a performance is given (esp. as part of a tour). Also: a recording session.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > [noun] > an engagement
shop1885
date1888
1888 N.Y. Mirror Ann. 38 Mme. Jansuschek..was compelled to cancel her dates for the remainder of the season.
1904 G. V. Hobart Jim Hickey vi. 101 God, please, if Danny is booked in Heaven won't You cancel his dates for a while and let him play here with me.
1935 Tempo Nov. 6/5 This must have been a good date. Red plays some beautiful things behind Mildred's work.
1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 I. 92 Bert. She nearly got the bird second house. Lily. Too refined, I expect. For this date.
1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop ii. 16 Charlie's first small-band date, September 15, 1944.
1971 Ebony Oct. 172/2 They played 150 dates that year, a career high.
1998 Gay Times Aug. 16/3 Old chum Liza Minelli had promised to pop in until she suddenly pulled out of her concert dates in London.
Phrases
P1. at this late date: at such a late stage in proceedings (typically with reference to the current point in time); (also) at such short notice.
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1823 Relig. Misc. 7 Feb. 58/2 If the want of the borough, when Bible societies have been in operation for nearly ten years, is at this late date ascertained to be so great, what must be the want of adjacent villages.
1894 St. Louis Clinique Nov. 469/1 The reason why I mention this case at this late date is that it has been recalled to my mind and memorandum by a secondary incident.
1914 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 28 Jan. 11/5 There is not much that can be done at this late date.
1969 A. Bennett Forty Years On i. 18 You can't abandon ship at this late date, Headmaster. We're relying on you.
1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 2 Jan. v. 6 The Giants will have to be at their best against the Eagles, who at this late date seem to be getting their second breath.
2007 D. Macomber Back on Blossom Street 294 ‘You can't cancel,’ his mother insisted. ‘Not at this late date. Everything's been arranged!’
P2. in the devil's date (also the date of the devil): see devil n. Phrases 1c.
P3.
a. out of date: see out of date adj. and adv.
b. in date: see in date adj.
P4. till date: = to date at Phrases 5. Now Indian English.
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1815 J. McQueen Campaigns 482 (table) Various actions and garrisons, till date, 14,600.
1853 Times 17 Mar. 6/6 From that period till date the market has ruled exceedingly dull.
1858 Bombay Times 21 Aug. 526/4 These two ships will take almost take away the entire quantity engaged till date.
1906 Star & Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 12 Dec. 4/5 Per cent. of attendance during term till date: males 96, females 91.
1976 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 423 170/2 Soviet policy toward India, beginning from the Bolshevik revolution till date, has been dictated..by the self-interest of the Soviet Union.
2002 Sunday Times of India 22 Sept. (Men & Women Suppl.) 2/1 He has, till date, filed 43 PILs.
P5. to date: to the present time or moment; up to now.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > up to the present time or up-to-date
down to date1840
up to date1868
to date1936
up-to-the-minutely1959
1860 U.S. vs. A. Castillero: New Almaden (U.S. District Court, N. District Calif.) 1833 The Mining Junta consequently has done all in its power to avoid being deprived of them [sc. funds], but without any result to date.
1936 Nature 21 Nov. 888/2 The results to date of the treatment..of cases of cancer..are detailed.
1969 Listener 5 June 806/1 All this adds up to one of Dylan's most beautiful songs to date.
2010 Sunday Times (South Africa) (Nexis) 5 Dec. I am particularly proud of my achievements to date.
P6. up to date: see up to date adv. and adj.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. In senses 3, 4, as date range, date span, etc.See also date stamp n.
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1890 Accountant 17 May 264/2 Some ingenious person has devised a very useful date calculator, by which any one can tell the day of the week of any date.
1900 Mem. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 8 iv. 70 The entire date range of the drawings is from February 26 to June 16, 1899.
1914 Southwestern Reporter 66 81/1 Where the agent inserts, without fault of the passenger, an erroneous date limit for return.
1932 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 15 Jan. xx. 22/7 We are criticized for spurning a date clash with Indianapolis.
1963 Billboard 9 Mar. 59/3 There was complete agreement that such a date change would be beneficial to all concerned.
1982 J. Barton in K. Muir & S. W. Wells Aspects of Shakespeare's ‘Probl. Plays’ 2/1 Whatever the date span of the sonnets, I see him responding in them to love in such totally different ways.
1992 P. H. Milne Presentation Graphics for Engin., Sci., & Business i. 11 It returns the date in the form MM-DD-YYYY, i.e. in the US date format.
2005 T. Calishain & R. Dornfest Google Hacks (ed. 2) v. 238 Build Boolean searches, search for exact phrases, restrict your searches to a particular site or date range.
b. In sense 8.See also datebook n. 2, date movie n. at Compounds 2, date rape n.
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1931 San Antonio (Texas) Light 28 Dec. a5/3 A new date dress is really as necessary as any every day clothes.
1938 San Antonio (Texas) Express 14 Aug. 3 (caption) Bernice Gascoine..is ‘date bait’ in this wool frock of luscious wisteria color.
1967 Punch 13 Sept. 378/1 Most fraternities..sustained this perfumed atmosphere of competition by requiring their members to date a different person every date night.
2009 J. M. Carroll & K. Schultz Underneath It All 106 Encourage him to get off work a little early by sending a picture to his phone of you getting ready for the evening in your date lingerie.
C2.
date box n. (a) a box containing rollers which can be turned to display the day and month through openings in the box's front (now rare); (b) a bordered space (esp. on a piece of paper or a computer screen) in which a date may be displayed or entered.
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1839 Railway Times 21 Sept. 746/3 The Diurnal or Date Boxes recently introduced.
1900 H. Nicholls & W. Lestocq Jane i. 4 Writing table with date box, candlesticks, etc.
1929 Winnipeg Free Press 20 July (Story section) 4/2 The details of the stamped, or carved, design on the pipe are a racing Indian pony across the front, with the buildings of a trading establishment and the date box above referred to around the back and sides.
1997 T. Powers Earthquake Weather (1998) ii. 21 Armentrout had already pulled down an escape-report form from the shelf over the desk, and he now wrote 12/31/94 in the date box.
2010 S. McManus Social Networking for Older & Wiser vi. 142 Your event title is limited to 20 characters, and it's a good idea to try to get the location and a short description into that,..because this is what appears in the date box on the calendar.
date-cancel v. rare transitive to cancel by a written or stamped date.
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1929 Statutory Rules & Orders 1928 (H.M.S.O.) 352 Date-cancel stamps immediately.
date letter n. a letter stamped or engraved on gold or silver plate, pottery, etc., denoting the year of manufacture; cf. date mark n.
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1863 W. Chaffers (title) Hall marks on gold and silver plate, with tables of annual date letters employed in the principal assay offices of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1935 Burlington Mag. June 288/1 Over-stamping on Sheffield-made candlesticks the London date-letter for 1775–6.
2004 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 62 22/1 Punched maker's mark and date letter for 1757–58 and Coventry crest ensigned by an earl's coronet engraved on bases.
date movie n. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) a film that might be suitable for watching on a date (sense 8a), esp. one which is pleasant but somewhat innocuous, such as a romantic comedy.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types
romantic comedy1748
epic1785
pre-release1871
foreign film1899
frivol1903
dramedy1905
film loop1906
first run1910
detective film1911
colour film1912
news film1912
topical1912
cinemicrograph1913
scenic1913
sport1913
newsreel1914
serial1914
sex comedy1915
war picture1915
telefilm1919
comic1920
true crime1923
art house1925
quickie1926
turkey1927
two-reeler1928
smellie1929
disaster film1930
musical1930
feelie1931
sticky1934
action comedy1936
quota quickie1936
re-release1936
screwball comedy1937
telemovie1937
pickup1939
video film1939
actioner1940
space opera1941
telepic1944
biopic1947
kinescope1949
TV movie1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
deepie1953
misterioso1953
film noir1956
policier1956
psychodrama1956
free film1958
prequel1958
co-production1959
glossy1960
sexploiter1960
sci-fier1961
tie-in1962
chanchada1963
romcom1963
wuxia1963
chick flick1964
showreel1964
mockumentary1965
sword-and-sandal1965
schlockbuster1966
mondo1967
peplum1968
thriller1968
whydunit1968
schlocker1969
buddy-buddy movie1972
buddy-buddy film1974
buddy film1974
science-fictioner1974
screwball1974
buddy movie1975
slasher movie1975
swashbuckler1975
filmi1976
triptych1976
autobiopic1977
Britcom1977
kidflick1977
noir1977
bodice-ripper1979
chopsocky1981
date movie1983
kaiju eiga1984
screener1986
neo-noir1987
indie1990
bromance2001
hack-and-slash2002
mumblecore2005
dark fantasy2007
hack-and-slay2007
gorefest2012
kidult-
1983 Evening Jrnl. (Lubbock, Texas) 10 Feb. d7/4 An officer and a gentleman... A great date movie.
1995 FHM Sept. 37/1 Though certainly romantic, While You Were Sleeping is a bit of a liability as a date movie—it's just too gushing about family values and true love.
2010 C. Mortimer Romantic Comedy vii. 143 The tragedy of the love story takes place against the backdrop of the New York indie rock club scene, extending its appeal to teen boys as a potential date movie.
date night n. colloquial (originally U.S.) an evening spent on or reserved for a date (sense 8a), (now) esp. by a married couple.
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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > romantic appointment
rendezvous1697
date1885
date night1910
1910 Amer. Pressman Dec. 120/2 Brother Gregg is going to embark on the sea of matrimony... All the boys..hope he will be able to be with us in our fights as he will not have to worry about date nights.
1927 Youngstown (Ohio) Daily Vindicator 6 Jan. 8/1 We weren't married then, and I know he was with me, for it was a ‘date night’... He came to see me every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday night.
1967 Punch 13 Sept. 378/1 Most fraternities..sustained this perfumed atmosphere of competition by requiring their members to date a different person every date night.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 Jan. (Mag. section) 35 To compensate for his time away from his family, he goes home for lunch, and has a ‘date night’ with the wife each week so that they can be together.
2010 New Yorker 29 Mar. 24/3 In 2008, on Valentine's Day, the Obamas went out for a ‘date night’ at Spiaggia, an Italian restaurant in Chicago.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
datev.
/deɪt/, U.S. /deɪt/ 1.
a. transitive. To determine or specify (the date or time) of an event.
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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. l. 349 (MED) Of her dethe he dateth nat the ȝere.
a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) l. 3588 (MED) Thus endet Heroud..but what tyme and also ȝer, her-after anone ȝe schun see datat the tyme fulle enter.
1625 E. Chaloner Unde Zizania? in Credo Ecclesiam Sanctam Catholicam 109 Name the Heresie..whereof wee cannot record the Brochers, describe the place, date the time of its Natiuitie?
1744 Wogan in J. Burton Genuineness Clarendon's Hist. 72 'Tis also easy to date the time of the suppos'd discovery as far back as is thought most serviceable to their purpose.
1799 Missionary Mag. 18 Mar. 107 We may venture to date the time of his being at the islands, sometime in the month of October 1797.
1827 F. A. Walter tr. B. G. Niebuhr Rom. Hist. I. xviii. 199 It would be perfectly impossible..to date the æra of the building of Rome.
1839 C. Knight Pict. Shakspere V. 10 To date the period of the action of Romeo and Juliet before this revival of learning and the arts, [etc.].
1884 Spectator 19 Apr. 514/1 To date the moment when these convictions first take possession of him is usually hopeless.
1921–2 Mod. Philol. 19 436 This dates the time of the action rather than that of the writing of the play.
2000 R. K. McGregor & E. Lewis Conundrums for Long Week-end iii. 85 There is no evidence to date the year of ‘The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention’, but it seems right to place it in the late autumn of 1922.
b. transitive. To determine the date or time of (an event, the creation of an object, etc.); to assign, or cause to be assigned, to a certain date.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > ascertain the date of
datec1450
placea1568
c1450 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (BL Add. 38666) f. 8v How þay dated þt tyme hore þyng Er Crist on eorthe light a doun.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 297 That the yeare of their Maioralty may date the building, or repaire of some Conduit.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Introd. 32 Though some of the MSS Copies of Eusebius date it vi Years before.
1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 208 Not the least ground to date the Samaritan Pentateuch so high as the times of Jeroboam.
1751 T. Sharp Two Diss. 69 The nature and purport of the Oath would forbid it being dated earlier than the Order of Priesthood.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Pendulum We may date the invention of the tubular pendulum..about the year 1775.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind v. 91 The art of dating events.
1933 Times 4 Oct. 17/5 Nothing was discovered to date them exactly.
2008 Archaeol. Ireland 22 iv. 19/1 Sites like this are notoriously difficult to date.
c. transitive. To assign to a certain time or date.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > assign to a certain date
date1827
1827 W. H. Pyne World in Miniature: Eng., Scotl. & Ireland II. 217 Taylor, the water poet, attributes the introduction of this carriage to William Bloomer,..and dates it to the year 1564.
1850 F. C. Skey Operative Surg. xv. 461 The patient will generally himself date it [sc. a strangulated hernia] to some hour..since when he has suffered greater pain or inconvenience than usual.
1913 E. T. Leeds Archaeol. Anglo-Saxon Settlements v. 86 This find can be dated by coins to about a.d. 290.
1957 G. Bibby Testimony of Spade xxiii. 371 The discovery..of swords of the La Tène type together with Roman coins, of which the latest was dated to 54 b.c.
2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones iii. 46 The Mameluke set of playing cards, dated to around 1500 and discovered in Istanbul, has four suits.
2. transitive. In early use: to complete or sign (a document), esp. as part of a formula stating the place and date of the signing. Now usually: to mark with the date; to write or print the date on (a letter, document, etc.). Also: to mark (the place of composition) on a letter, document, etc. Frequently with date as complement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > mark with the date
date1428
1428 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 79 (MED) Date at London the day and the yer aforesaid.
1433 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 94 Dated, ȝere & day aboveseyd.
1496 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 19 The sade assignacione was datit in the moneth of March, notwithstanding that it was made and writin lang tyme thareefter.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 507/1 Bycause you use nat to date them [sc. letters], I wotte nat whyther to sende to you.
1586 C. Baker Let. 22 Oct. in Earl of Leicester Corr. (1844) clxiii. 444 I have receved your excellences letter dated the 19. of this present.
1642 R. Baillie Let. 10 May (1841) II. 39 I have daited allready my proemiall lessoun..I hope to dait before June a little compend of the chief controversies.
1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 100 A Bill dated the 30th of January.
1744 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 653/2 He pretends to find fault with my manner of dating my letter.
1785 T. Jefferson Let. 16 Aug. in Papers (1953) VIII. 393 I suppose you to be now at Avignon, by the post mark, for you omitted to date the place from whence you wrote.
1828 Reg. Pennsylvania 15 Mar. 172/1 The publisher adopted the style of the Quakers, and dated it [sc. a newspaper] ‘The 2d of the 11th mo. 1728’.
1893 Law Times 95 33/2 A blank transfer..neither dated nor executed by the bank nor stamped.
1916 J. Conrad Let. 23 July (1956) 248 We had a field post-card this morning dated the 21st.
2005 B. Jenkins Goodbye vi. 102 He usually forgot to date his letters, but I found one he had written to Sinatra on December 3, 1959.
3.
a. transitive. To mark (a letter) as being sent from a specified place (typically by writing this alongside the date). Also intransitive (now rare).
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1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyages Butrigarius & Cabote in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 254v I sawe his letter wrytten in the yeare. 1541. and dated from Mexico.
1568 E. Dering Sparing Restraint sig. **.ij The former was writen about the .12. yere of Claudius, and by expresse words dated from Babilon.
1616 G. Hakewill Answere Treat. D. Carier 283 You forgot your promise made to my Lords Grace of Cant. in your Letter dated from Colin the 17 of August 1613. that you neither were, nor euer would be wholly reconciled to the Church of Rome.
1699 J. Addison Let. Oct. in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) 177 You will be surpris'd..to find among your Correspondencies in Foreign parts a Letter Dated from Blois.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 308. ⁋5 The following Letter..dated from York.
1723 Duke of Wharton True Briton No. 30 261 The Author is much obliged to the Gentleman who dates from Wales, and stiles himself Cambro-Britannus.
1779 Town & Country Mag. Nov. 612/1 The last dispatches received by government from Sir Charles Hardy, were dated from Torbay, the 3rd of November.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice II. xii. 138 Elizabeth opened the letter... It was dated from Rosings, at eight o'clock in the morning. View more context for this quotation
1870 Appletons' Jrnl. 17 Dec. 743/1 One of our contributors..dates the letter from ‘Roxbury’, without giving the name of the State.
1915 Survey 25 Dec. 339/2 The last direct word from Mme. Breshkovsky..was a postcard to Miss Blackwell, dated from Yakoutsk on August 13.
1932 P. E. Bentley Inheritance (1937) 233 He dates from Fixby Hall; father says he thinks he's somebody's steward.
1997 S. Rowan in S. Rowan tr. H. Börnstein Mem. Nobody 116 (footnote) Letter dated from Highland, 2 June 1849.
b. intransitive. Of a letter or other composition: to be written or addressed from a specified place (at a specified date). Also with place (and date) as complement. Now rare.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > reckon the time or date [verb (intransitive)] > be dated
to bear date1440
datea1850
a1850 D. G. Rossetti Dante & Circle (1874) i. 27 Dante's sonnet probably dates from Ravenna.
1874 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains 363 A recent..edition dates Wilna 1852.
1906 M. Luce Handbk. Wks. W. Shakespeare iii. 21 The only existing letter written to Shakespeare..dates from London, October, 1598.
1921 Proc. Amer. Soc. Psychical Res. 15 225 His last letter dates from New York.
a. transitive. To put an end to; to bring to an end. Cf. date n.2 5. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to
astintc700
stathea1200
atstuntc1220
to put an end toa1300
to set end ofa1300
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to put awayc1350
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surceasec1435
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discontinue1474
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abrogatea1529
suppressa1538
to set in or at stay1538
to make stay of1572
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to give a stop toa1586
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to break off1607
snape1631
sist1635
to make (a) stop of1638
supersede1643
assopiatea1649
periodizea1657
unbusya1657
to put a stop to1679
to give the holla to1681
to run down1697
cessate1701
end1737
to choke off1818
stopper1821
punctuate1825
to put a stopper on1828
to take off ——1845
still1850
to put the lid on1873
on the fritz1900
to close down1903
to put the fritz on something1910
to put the bee on1918
switch1921
to blow the whistle on1934
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > bring to an end or conclude [verb (transitive)]
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to bring adowna1450
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to knit up1530
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to shut up1575
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to close up1592
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to wind off1650
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to wind up1740
to put the lid on1873
to put the tin hat on something1900
to wash up1925
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. B3 Alledging how death at the least may date his miserie.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 2 The precept is neuer dated, but in full force.
a1618 J. Sylvester Epist. v, in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Divine Weekes (1641) 644/2 His matchlesse Art, that never age shall date.
b. transitive. To limit to a particular time. Obsolete. rare.
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1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 67 The studies of Policy, Methods of War..are all dated for the convenience and use of this life.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > dissemble [verb (reflexive)] > assume a role
braidc1275
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date1612
1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares i. sig. B4 A Spartan Lord, dating himselfe our great Viceroies Kinsman.
6.
a. transitive. To reckon chronologically; to reckon as beginning from a particular starting point.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > reckon chronologically by date
datea1646
a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 107 The Men of Hamel date all their publick Matters especially, from this Exodus, or going forth of the Children.
1694 M. Prior For New Year: To Sun ii From the blessings they bestow, Our times are dated, and our eras move.
1712 tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Wks. II. 112 The Hours of the Day were dated by the Time, when the Magistrates enter'd into Council, by that of their staying there and that of their coming out.
1744 Universal Hist. (Dublin rev. ed.) I. 734 Some of those monarchs..were taken into copartnership with their predecessors, and..the beginning of their reigns was dated from that incident.
1767 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II I. 158 It is from his reign we must date the first regular settlement of the Anglo-Norman constitution.
a1824 Ld. Byron To Countess Blessington iv, in T. Moore Lett. & Jrnl. Ld. Byron (1830) II. 636 My Life is not dated by years—There are moments which act as a plough.
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. ix. 58 Every Christian church which dates its origin from any period before the Reformation.
1899 A. H. Sayce Early Hist. Hebrews (ed. 2) ii. 147 In Babylonia time was dated by the reigns of the kings and the events of the several years of each reign.
1923 J. Street Rita Coventry viii. 85 ‘I've been there three other times, remember—I mean since I met you.’ She had a way of dating time in that fashion.
1963 M. L. King Strength to Love viii. 59 Christ so split history into a.d. and b.c. that even the reign of Caesar was subsequently dated by his name.
1994 J. E. G. Whitehorne Cleopatras xiv. 176 Ptolemy IX dated the years of his kingship from his accession as king of Cyprus.
b. intransitive. To calculate or specify the time or date; to reckon the date from a particular starting point.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > reckon the time or date [verb (intransitive)]
date1799
1799 W. Thornton Let. 12 Feb. in G. Washington Papers (1999) Retirement Ser. III. 376 The rule is, to date so as to let the sixty Days expire the Day before the renewal at Bank is required.
1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 27 Six full days had..passed..dating from the time when the eruption appeared.
1893 R. H. Sherard Bartered Honour I. i. 2 It was but a few weeks ago that he began to write, dating from when this story begins.
1921 J. W. Thompson in S. Mathews & G. B. Smith Dict. Relig. & Ethics 62/2 Hadrian I was the first pope to date according to his own pontificate.
2007 P. Townsend Pearl Harbor Jazz iii. 58 The life cycle of a song can be..measured in a few weeks or a few months, dating from..the release of the first recording.
ΚΠ
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 150 As we have dated the immediate Cause of all Acute Diseases, especially Fevers, from the Contraction of the Solids.
8.
a. intransitive. Followed by prepositional phrase: to originate at, or have existed since, a particular time.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [verb (intransitive)] > have its origin in a particular epoch
date1799
1799 Monthly Mag. Oct. 713/1 This last kind of monuments, which dates from the thirteenth century, has experienced, in each of the following ages, modifications.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 68 The worship of the Sminthian Apollo dates before the earliest periods of Æolic colonization.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xi. 27 We learned that the house dated back as far as the days of Matthew Stach.
1892 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 24 334 Parochial accounts that date back to the pre-Reformation period.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ix. 167 Lamp-Shells or Brachiopods.—These are very ancient animals, dating from the very earliest fossil-bearing rocks.
1967 Ottawa Jrnl. 31 May 39/2 Your husband's hang-up dates back to childhood and you must treat it as an illness.
2001 FourFourTwo Aug. 25/2 The display model at Tokyo station has a sticker of Steve Perryman, dating from his days in the J-League.
b. intransitive. To share a date or be contemporaneous with.In quot. 1827: to rank in respect of standing with.
ΚΠ
1821 Christian Remembrancer Apr. 244/1 It appears from the Commination Service, which dates with the earliest part of our Liturgy, that the want of a proper personal Lent penance was even then experienced and deplored.
1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xxviii, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 15 For we are very kindly creatures, dating With nature's charities.
1896 Hawaiian Ann. 162 The spell of [volcanic] activity which dated with July 11, 1896, continued the rest of the year.
1920 Louisiana Hist. Q. 3 596 The bonded debt of the City of New Orleans..dates with the origin of same.
1995 M. G. L. Baillie Slice through Time ii. 37/2 Our procedures were robust enough to build a chronology which was totally independent of the German chronologies and which dated with them exactly.
9.
a. transitive. To mark as being of a certain date or period; to make outdated or only briefly fashionable or appealing.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [verb (transitive)] > render old-fashioned
antiquate1531
stale1601
superannuate1649
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rust1694
unmodernize1818
fossilize1848
oust1865
date1895
archaize1906
1895 Westm. Gaz. 13 Mar. 5/1 Every portion of a picture was ‘dated’ from every other portion of it.
1911 in C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothing (1952) iii. 104 These hats would..never date their owners.
1932 N. Coward Cavalcade ii. iii. 80 ‘I was in “Mirabelle” then.’.. ‘I was taken to see that.’.. ‘Taken to see it, were you! That dates us a bit.’
1951 R. A. Knox Stimuli i. 4 Nothing..so dates our generation as this habit of talking about things being dated.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 July ii. 29/4 Series with a political framework are always at risk of being dated, and the cold war backdrops of these three spy programs definitely reflect an old world order.
b. intransitive. To bear evidence of being of a certain date or period; (in later use chiefly) to be or become old-fashioned or outdated.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [verb (intransitive)] > become old-fashioned
musty1631
to go out1772
fossilize1845
stale1893
date1924
1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 27 June 649/1 I have been led into this investigation of ‘dating’ by the fact that The School for Scandal..dated very perceptibly last Saturday night at the Lyceum in point of morals.
1924 Glasgow Herald 6 Nov. 8 George Eliot still has her readers,..but she has begun to ‘date’ rather decidedly.
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song iii. xvi. 341 ‘I respected old Forsyte,’ he said to his son... ‘He dated, and he couldn't express himself; but there was no humbug about him.’
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 773/4 Almost all the films he discussed just ten short years ago have either badly dated or been forgotten.
2002 Time Out 2 Jan. 150/2 It's deliriously artificial as a production, pointing up the sense of moral decay in a way that hasn't dated.
10. Originally U.S.
a. transitive. With up. To arrange to go on a (romantic) date with (somebody). Frequently in passive: to have a (romantic) date with somebody.
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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)] > make or have a date with
date1902
society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [verb (transitive)] > arrange to go on a date with
date1902
1902 G. Ade Girl Proposition 70 Before he left that Evening he had himself all dated up for a return engagement.
1917 R. W. Lardner Gullible's Trav. iii. 86 I..dated her up to meet me down-town the next day.
1938 D. Runyon Furthermore v. 95 These characters keep trying to date up the nurses.
1947 ‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board 62 The white troops found to their concern that every girl was dated up by a negro.
1970 New Yorker 18 July 28/3 I was too busy with other social engagements. I was all dated up with the Greeks.
2005 B. Whittington Living with Fred xvii. 132 He shot at the guys who tried to date her up.
b. transitive. To arrange or go on a date (date n.2 8a) with (a person); (now usually) to go out with (a person) regularly as a romantic partner. Also in passive: to have a date with somebody.
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1903 A. Kleberg Slang Fables 67 She was Dated to a chap with Uncounted wealth.
1924 ‘W. Fabian’ Sailors' Wives iv. 59 Warren Graves wants to date me for the Deuces Wild party Saturday night.
1932 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 17 May 5/2 An Emporia girl, who ‘dates’ a wrestler, telephoned her boss the other day that she could not be at work because she had sprained her arm.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning 369 It seemed dangerous, dating a cop's kid like that.
1996 Weekly World News 4 June 32/3 I used to date the guy she's marrying.
c. intransitive. To go out, or arrange to go out, on a date with somebody; esp. to go out with a person (regularly) as a romantic partner; (of two people) to go out together (regularly) as romantic partners.
ΚΠ
1922 Railroad Telegrapher Jan. 34/1 I see you are not dating with Ruth any more.
1928 Collier's 5 May 36/3 Dat fool gal datin' wid me and wawkin' off wid dat money man.
1958 S. Ellin Eighth Circle (1959) ii. xvi. 172 ‘When will I see you again?’ ‘You can't!’ she said in alarm. ‘I mean, not this way, as if we were dating or something.’
1988 D. Allison Trash 153 Red dye stains on the sink was a sure sign Reese was dating some new boy, baking him a Red Velvet Cake my stepfather would want for himself.
2003 D. Ollivier Entre Nous 89 Are we dating? Are you my boyfriend or just a friend? Now that we've made love, are we a couple?
2008 I. Kerner Sex Detox x. 215 If you haven't dated in a while.., what is it that has prevented you from being out there?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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