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And editors of the Middle English Dictionary have also assigned a date of ca. 1500 to the MS.; in my opinion, the date is palaeographically more likely to have been ca. 1450-75 than 1500.

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  1. noun Time stated in terms of the day, month, and year.
  2. noun A statement of calendar time, as on a document.
  3. noun A specified day of a month.
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  • And editors of the Middle English Dictionary have also assigned a date of ca. 1500 to the MS.; in my opinion, the date is palaeographically more likely to have been ca. 1450-75 than 1500. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
  • Japanese and Polynesian native speakers and, on the other, all other peoples he has tested to date is the result of a carefully conducted series of hearing tests. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 2
  • Unless otherwise specified, this date is from Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
  • Polly had a quiet summer at home, resting and getting ready in mind and body for another winter's work, for in the autumn she tried her plan again, to the satisfaction of her pupils and the great joy of her friends. —  An Old-Fashioned Girl
  • Before he could comment on the fact that they could barely meet the mortgage payments as it was, without another baby to feed and clothe, she had started on about his drinking. —  Dangerous Lady
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin data, from Latin data (Romae), issued (at Rome) (on a certain day), feminine past participle of dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Old Provençal datil, from Latin dactylus, from Greek daktulos, finger, date (from its shape).

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  1. from Middle English date, from Old French date, French date = Spanish Portuguese Italian data, from Middle Latin data, feminine, also datum, neuter (later D. G. Danish Swedish datum), date, note of time and place, so called from Latin datum, given, the first word of the customary note in letters or documents giving the place and time of writing or issue, as datum Romœ, given at Rome (on such a day); feminine or neuter of Latin datus, given (= Greek δοτός), past participle of dare = Greek διδόναι, 2d aorist δοῦναι (δίδωμι, I give) = Old Bulgarian datiˇ = Slov. Servian dati = Polish dac = Russian dati, davatiˇ = Lithuanian duti = Lettish dōt = Sanskrit √ dā, give (dadāmi, I give). From Latin dare, past participle datus, come also English date, datum, dado, and die (doublets of date), datary, dation, dative, and from the same root (from Latin donare) donate, donative, condone, etc.
  2. = French dater = Spanish Portuguese datar = Italian datare, from Middle Latin datare, note the date, from data, datum, date: see date, n.
  3. from Middle English date, dat = Spanish dado, masculine, = Portuguese dada, feminine, = Italian dato, masculine, from Latin datum (= Greek δοτόν), neuter, usually in plural, also data, feminine, a grant, allowance, gift, tribute, literally a thing given, neuter and feminine of L. datus, given: see date, and datum, of which date is a doublet.
  4. from Middle English date, from Old French date, also datil, datille, French datte = Provencal datil, dactil = Spanish dátil = Portuguese datile = Italian dattilo, dattero (cf. Dutch dadel = German dattel = Danish daddel = Swedish dadel, from Old French or Italian) = Polish Bohemian daktyl, from Latin dactylus (New Latin also, after Roman, datalus), from Greek δάκτυλος, a date, so called from its shape, literally a finger, also a dactyl: see dactyl, a doublet of date.
 

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