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DATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past
Classified under:
Similar:
unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb date
Context examples:
He caught up the next paper; it was a brief note in the doctor’s hand and dated at the top. O Poole! the lawyer cried, he was alive and here this day.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A subfield of dendrochronology, which investigates the climatic effect on tree growth, and uses dated tree rings to reconstruct and study past and present climate.
(Dendroclimatology, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
They dated the fossil to the Cretaceous period, roughly 99 million years ago, the same period as Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and early mammals, sharks, and flowering plants.
(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)
The Boston Globe reports the Duke of Richmond is believed to have been the original owner of the parchment which the researchers dated to the 1780s.
(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)
We found that the news of the arrival of the packet—for her illness dated from that time—had such an effect upon her as to bring on brain fever.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Teeth and scales, along with a small amount of calcified cartilage from the jaw and gill structure of a Gladbachus, dated back 385 million years, were collected in Germany which, like most of Europe, was covered by seawater during the ancient shark's lifetime.
(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)
The beginning contained an account of all their little parties and engagements, with such news as the country afforded; but the latter half, which was dated a day later, and written in evident agitation, gave more important intelligence.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I remember it was written from Weymouth, and dated Sept. 28th—and began, 'My dear Madam,' but I forget how it went on; and it was signed 'F. C. Weston Churchill.'—I remember that perfectly.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Having dated the eruption, the researchers found that Iceland’s most celebrated medieval poem, which describes the end of the pagan gods and the coming of a new, singular god, describes the eruption and uses memories of it to stimulate the Christianisation of Iceland.
(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)
It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and ran thus: (...)
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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