Dated
['deɪtɪd] or ['detɪd]
Definition
(adj.) marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Date
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Examples
- It was dated from Hampshire on the 25th of July, and it announced the journey of Lady Glyde to London on the 26th. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was incorporated, in pursuance of an act of parliament, by a charter under the great seal, dated the 27th of July 1694. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is curious to note that this law against the imitation of silver, which really dated from the fifteenth century, made a special exception to articles made for the Church. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One of his friends, Castelli, wrote of this in a letter many years later, dated 1638. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Some of these were dated ten years back, too, and one was quite a fresh one--a note for a thousand pounds which Lord Steyne had given her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs. Casaubon was all very well; but Will's interest in her dated before he knew Mrs. Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Watson's paper is dated January 21, 1748; Franklin's July 11, 1747; several months prior. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- King Henry VIII of England, he of the many wives, had a match-lock arquebus of this type dated 1537. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Young as I was, I believe that I dated a new admiration of Joe from that night. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Our active policy of the Pacific dated from that hour. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They drew up a legal agreement to this effect, dated May 27, 1793, and stipulating that all the profits should be equally divided between them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Brother, that will is dated months before this will. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is dated very soon after the son's flight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Several days elapsed, and at last an answer came, dated from Cologne. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It dated from that very night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was dated an hour and a half before dinner. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The Atlantic was waking up again after a vast period of neglect that dated from the Roman murder of Carthage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I remember it was written from Weymouth, and dated Sept. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We have dated the last Glacial Age and the appearance of the true men as about 40,000 or 35,000 years ago. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Wallace to him dated the morning of the 5th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To his surprise it was dated from Skuytercliff, whither the van der Luydens had promptly retreated after putting the Duke on board his steamer. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It was dated La Terrasse, and it ran thus:-- DEAR LUCY,--It occurs to me to inquire what you have been doing with yourself for the last month or two? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is only a few days since the kind letter of my dear young friend, dated December 24, came to my hands. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Another, dated a week on, for the remaining balance seventeen hundred pounds. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On the 2d of March I received orders dated March 1st to move my command back to Fort Henry, leaving only a small garrison at Donelson. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The letter was dated Amelia Court House, April 5th, and signed by Colonel Taylor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I saw none but what was dated four or five hundred years back, and was badly worn and battered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- SIR, I received your letter dated at Brussels the 16th past. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is, therefore, easy to date, approximately, an American-made spoon, because it follows so closely in style the dated or hall-marked English spoon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- McCormick’s next patent was dated October 23, 1847, No. 5,335, and in this the raker’s seat was to be mounted on the platform as shown in Fig. 151. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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