DAT 
-words at length; dated or a at fe ot this rh 
fixth day of March, in the year ord one thoufan 
{even hundred and fifi In on “tl cere is ufually in 
figures; London, March the 26th, I 
n antedate is a falfe date, prior to ae real time when 
the ay ene was paffed, or figned. 
A poft-date, is that eter to the real time, &c. 
Our ancient deeds had no dates, but ony the month and 
year, to lignify that they were not made in hafte, or in 
the Leg of a day, but upon longer and more mature deit- 
beratio e king’s grants began’ with thefe words, 
ne Pet anbus & futuri, &c.”? but the grants of ae per- 
fons with ‘ Omnibus prefentes literas infpeGuris, &c.” 
A deed is good though it mentions no a or hath a 
falfe date: or even if it hath an impoffible date, asthe goth 
of February; provided the real day of its heing dated or 
given, that is, delivered, can be proved. Black. Com. 
vol. il. p. 304 ' 
— ‘Dakylus, the fruit of the palm-tree. See Pua- 
NI 
The word is formed of daéte, and that of daQylus, fin- 
ger 5 as being round and oblong, refembling a finger’s en a 
‘Chis fruit is.gathered in autt umn, before "it is ripe; and 
bears'a near rzfemblance to our bullace; being of a green 
colour, and very fharp and aftringent. When ripe, it be- 
comes ruddy, having a hard, longifh ftone, cloven at 
fs ttom, and encompaffed with a thin white pellicle, or 
fk, or covering of the date, called by the ancients 
elate, or fpatha, when the fruit isin its growth, is varia e3 
having as many changes of colour as the fig has. Som 
dates are black, fome white, fome brown 5 3 fome 
no bigger thanac 
nate. The belt are hele called royal dates. 
another ae called caryote, _ are very good. 
f them have ftones, and other ; 
ur da “ are brought us om Tet Syria, Africa, 
and the Indies. Among the Egyptians and Africans they 
make a principal article of food. T ey never come to 
ful l maturity in Italy, or the moft fouthern parts of Spain; 
and yet there are tolerable dates in Provence; which do 
not keep, but breed worms. The beft come from Tunis 
ich-pea, and others as big as a pomegra- 
There is alfo 
Some 
and Perfia. 
AtE-palm, in Botany. Baie oe 
Date plum. See Dio 
Dates, Land See Bitep ID 
of GER 
Daruovire. colour of ae mineral. is greyifh and 
as white, pa mountain-green. It occurs 
mafs, and alee in {mall reGtangular se ea ran 
Seine with truncated angles. Itistranflucent. Its lu 
internally is fhining, between vitreous and refinous. Its 
fra&ture is {mall and imperfe@ly conchoidal. . It prefents 
asi and coarfe granular concretions. It is confiderably 
hard. Sp. gr. 2.98. 
It is compofed, according to Klaproth, of 
365 Si rae 
355 
24. Bere acid 
4. 
roo. 
It has been recently difcovered by Efmark, at Arendabl 
in Norway. 
DAT 
DATHTHA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afiay- 
I 
in the interior of Media. Ptolemy. 
45 in Botany, aa hemp. Linn. Gen. 
530. Schreb. 700. Willd. Pl. v. 4. Juff. 445. 
lafs and order, dioecia dcdecandria. Nat. 
en. Ch. Racen A. eh of five equal, linear, acute 
lea Cor . Filaments about 15, very 
fho one anthers oblong, obtufe, much longer than the calyx. 
Fertile fl. Cad, poe of two teeth, ere&t, miaute, 
permanent. Cor. Pift. en oblong, inferior ; 
ityles three, fliort, ee ; tligmas fimple, oblong, fhaggy, 
Peric. Capfule prifmatic, three-pointeds with three valves 
aud one cell. Seeds numero us, {mall, ranged along three, 
fule. 
; Corolla none. 
Anthers fifteen, | ‘oblong, nearly feffile. Fertile fl. Cal. 
ect ne, Styles three. Capfule inferior, 
triangle, es fone pervious, of one cell, with many 
ds. 
f this genus there are two fpecies. D. cannabina, 
(Canabis lutea fertilis; Alpin. Exot. 98. 
{mocth ttem, and grows in Crete. It is perennial, herba- 
ceous, feveral feet Hoy with mach of the habit of hem 
fee Cannanis; but the flowers are yellow and more con- 
{picuous than thofe Me thas ufeful plant. ee alternate, 
It flowers after midfummer, and is p 
qj 
is leant in n Pennine 
pearance from the for 
ATISI, in Logie, a mode of he Sar in is third 
figure, wherein the. major is an univerfal affirmative, and 
the minor — conclafion are particular diana propoli- 
tions. FE 
DA. « “All God’s friends are kings.” 
TL * Some of God’s friends are ‘aaa 
SI Therefore, fome poor are kin 
VE, in Cra: the third cafe in os cme 
of nouns; expreffing the ftate or — Ze 
whofe profit or lofs fome other thing is re 
It is called dative, becaufe ufually pee by a verb im- 
? 
to the prepa iar perniciofus neg: i to 
the church ; vifum eft Plat toni, it feemed to Pla 
In Englifh, where we have Pr oper ay no aes "chi rela- 
tion is peer by the fign to o 
DATOS, or Daron, in ne a town of Europe, 
which, alter having geht to Napa was transferred to 
the-king of Macedoni he empire was extended on 
at firft called Cremides, from the fountain fea a TV aaee in 
the hill on which it was puilt ; and afterwards, as is faid, 
Calliftratus the Athenian gave it the name of Dat When 
. Philip, king of Macedon, ce polleffion of it, he aes 
