Date \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.

Note: 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. --M. Arnold.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)