[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

date \date\, n. f. date, ll. data, fr. l. datus given, p. p. of
   dare to give; akin to gr. ?, oslaw. dati, skr. d=a. cf.
   datum, dose, dato, die.
   1. that addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which
      specifies the time as day, month, and year when the
      writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made;
      as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin.
      etc.
      1913 webster

            and bonds without a date, they say, are void.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. the point of time at which a transaction or event takes
      place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of
      time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.
      1913 webster

            he at once,
            down the long series of eventful time,
            so fixed the dates of being, so disposed
            to every living soul of every kind
            the field of motion, and the hour of rest.
                                                  --akenside.
      1913 webster

   3. assigned end; conclusion. r.
      1913 webster

            what time would spare, from steel receives its date.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   4. given or assigned length of life; dyration. obs.
      1913 webster

            good luck prolonged hath thy date.    --spenser.
      1913 webster

            through his life's whole date.        --chapman.
      1913 webster

   to bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; --
      said of a writing.
      1913 webster
see also:
datum dato die to bear date 

[2] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

to bear date. in the description of a paper in a declaration, to say it 
bears date such a day, is to aver that such date is upon it; and if, on 
being produced, it is dated at another day, the variance will be fatal. but 
if it be averred it was made on such a day, and upon its production it bears 
date on another day, it will not be a variance, because it might have been 
made one day and dated another. 3 burr. 904. 

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