Dating

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

  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.
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     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.
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     Note: We may say dated at or from a place.
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                 The letter is dated at Philadephia. --G. T.
                                                    Curtis.
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                 You will be suprised, I don't question, to find
                 among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a
                 letter dated from Blois.           --Addison.
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                 In the countries of his jornal seems to have been
                 written; parts of it are dated from them. --M.
                                                    Arnold.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dating
       n : use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological
           specimens [syn: {geological dating}]