Dates?

1870 YEATS Nat. Hist. Comm. 183 The best dates come to us from Tunis, viâ Marseilles.

1923 J. MANCHON Le Slang 101 You date! que tu es drôle!

1866 Treas. Bot. 878 P[h{oe}nix] sylvestris, called the Wild Date, is supposed by some authors to be the parent of the cultivated date.

1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 10 A paire of Indentures..the date wherof is the xijth daie of Aprill in the secound yere of your..reigne.

c1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. (1810) 47 {Th}at tyme he died..{Th}e date was a {th}ousand & sextene mo.

1828 CARLYLE Misc. I. 222 Up to this date Burns was happy.

1900 {emem} Fables in Slang (1902) 138 Her Date Book had to be kept on the Double Entry System.

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.

1952 WODEHOUSE Barmy in Wonderland i. 17 He proposed to teach it a few simple tricks and get it dates on television.

1832 W. IRVING Alhambra I. 50 The Torres Vermejos, or vermilion towers..are of a date much anterior to the Alhambra.

1890 R. BRIDGES Shorter Poems III. vi, Her [a flower's] brief date.

a1600 RALEIGH Poems, Reply to Marlowe vi, But could youth last, and love still breed, Had joyes no date, nor age no need.

c1470 HENRY Wallace II. 195 Is this thi dait, sall thai our cum ilkane? On our kynrent, deyr God, quhen will thow rew?

1824 MEDWIN Convers. Byron (1830) I. 124 Shakespeare's Comedies are quite out of date; many of them are insufferable to read.

1960 News. Chron. 22 Sept. 9/7 A housewife faced a conference of food inspectors..to demand the date-stamping of all perishable foods.

1980 Mademoiselle Nov. 211/3 He could be prosecuted if only the legal system would accept that ‘date rape’ is possible.

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.

1995 FHM Sept. 37/1 Though certainly romantic, While You Were Sleeping is a bit of a liability as a date movie{em}it's just too gushing about family values and true love.

1796 JANE AUSTEN Pride & Prej. (1833) 172 Elizabeth opened the letter..It was dated from Rosings at eight o'clock in the morning.

1951 R. KNOX Stimuli i. 4 Nothing..so dates our generation as this habit of talking about things being dated.

182. BYRON To C'tess Blessington iv, My life is not dated by years{em}There are moments which act as a plough.

a1742 BENTLEY (J.), Whether we begin the world so many millions of ages ago, or date from the late æra of about six thousand years.

1947 ‘N. SHUTE’ Chequer Board 62 The white troops found to their concern that every girl was dated up by a negro. 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.’

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.

1589 GREENE Menaphon (Arb.) 25 Alledging how death at the least may date his miserie.

1676 HALE Contempl. I. 67 The studies of Policy, Methods of War..are all dated for the convenience and use of this life.

1612 CHAPMAN Widowes T. Plays 1873 III. 11 A Spartan Lord, dating himselfe our great Viceroies Kinsman.

1725 N. ROBINSON Th. Physick 150 As we have dated the immediate Cause of all Acute Diseases, especially Fevers, from the Contraction of the Solids.

a1850 ROSSETTI Dante & Circ. I. (1874) 27 Dante's sonnet probably dates from Ravenna.

1846 GROTE Greece I. i. I. 68 The worship of the Sminthian Apollo dates before the earliest periods of Æolic colonization.

1827 HOOD Plea Mids. Fairies xxviii, For we are very kindly creatures, dating With Nature's charities.

(Process: a quotation from each definition of the three entries for date (n.1, n.2, v.) in the Oxford English Dictionary)