Good luck prolonged hath thy date.
Spenser.
Through his life's whole date.
Chapman.
To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing.
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.
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.