date (1 the prevailing S. meaning)
1.
duration,
term of existence Err. I. ii.
41,
MND. III. ii. 373
“whose till death shall
never end,”
John IV. iii. 106, R3 IV. iv. 255, Rom. I. iv. 3, 109,
Sonn. cxxiii. 5
“Our dates are
brief.”
2.
limit or end of a
period or term
Sonn. xiv. 14
“Thy end is truth's and
beauty's doom and date.”
