plant
Date
Date as a plant people have named and used. Desert sugar, travel store, palm gift — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Islam
Date appears in Islam.
The Qur’an names the date-palm among gardens, provision, and parable speech. A named plant in that Arabic scripture, not the fig of sura 95 alone and not a generic desert-fruit dump.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Date is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists date-palm (phoinix) fruit among nourishing and softening drugs. A named date in that handbook, not the Qur’anic date-palm speech already walked and not a calendar-fruit dump alone.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Date is historically related to Oil.
In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Date sits with Oil in finish and formula speech — named together on the working page.
from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)
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Date is historically related to Oak.
In al's The Jewish Encyclopedia, Date is treated with Oak; piece and peer stock share the entry.
from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906
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In Culpeper English Physician, lohoch of pine-nuts takes fifteen drams of pine-nuts with the pulp of dates among almonds and liquorice.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Roman religion
Date appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History seats the date palm among eastern and African fruit trees known to Rome. A named date in that encyclopedia, not the Qur’an date already walked and not a modern energy-bar dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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Egyptian religion
Date appears in Egyptian religion.
Herodotus notes date-palms among Egyptian and Arabian landscape and produce speech. A named date in that traveler’s speech, not palm as an unpublished plant id and not a supermarket dump.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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sources
- The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.
- A Treatise on Optics · David Brewster
David Brewster, A Treatise on Optics.
- The Jewish Encyclopedia · Isidore Singer et al.
Isidore Singer et al., The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1906).
- The English Physician · Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Complete Herbal).