Emily Dickinson Lexicon

date (-s), n². [Fr. < L. datus, given.] (webplay: contracts, day, done, note, rights, time).

1. Record; testament; confirmation; proof.
2. Day on a calendar; time when an event will take place; particular time on a day of the month in a year.
3. Moment; instance; past occurrence; prior experience; [fig.] memory; recollection.
4. Origin; beginning; commencement; time when something first happened.
5. Inception; onset; starting point.
6. Twenty-four hour period; specific sequential day.
7. Chronology; sense of time passing; [fig.] finitude; mortality.
8. Appointment; assigned time; expected arrival.
9. Term; duration; continuance; period of time.
10. Tombstone data; [metonymy] descendant; posterity; people with future death-day headstone inscriptions.
11. Engagement; tryst; rendevous; reunion; prearranged meeting.