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dated
To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
"to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter"
To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
To determine the age of something.
"to date the building of the pyramids"
Marked with a date.
"The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922."
Outdated.
""Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus."
Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
"Calling a happy person gay seems awfully dated nowadays; people will assume you mean something else."
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