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up to date, ˈup-to-ˌdate, advb. phr. and a.
[up adv.1 26 c (c). See date n.2 7.]
A. advb. phr.
1. Right up to the present time, or the time of writing.
1868W. M. Baker New Timothy xiii, So of Solomon in reference to Rehoboam, and of every father in reference to his son, up to date. 1882Imperial Dict. s.v. Post v., To make the requisite entries on [a book] up to date. 1899Plummer Saxon Chronicles II. p. xxvii, But up to 1001 the Winchester monks kept it up to date.
2. In a condition abreast of the times in respect of qualities, style, knowledge, presentation of facts, etc.
1889Sims & Pettitt (title), Faust Up to Date. Burlesque Opera. 1890–[see date n.2 7]. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 293 The improvements for this season render this camera quite ‘up to date’. 1892Bookseller 8/2 The..information seems.. to be as accurate and as well up to date as ever. 1894Daily News 9 June 5/2 Why, then, should Lord Salisbury sharpen his faculties and keep them, as the odious modern phrase is, up to date?
B. adj.
1. Extending to the present time; presenting or inclusive of the latest facts, details, etc.; employing or involving the latest methods or devices.
1888Academy 4 Feb. 73/2 In the absence of a good up-to-date English work on the islands. 1890Sat. Rev. 16 Aug. 209/2 A complete and up-to-date summary of Demosthenic scholarship. 1892Pall Mall G. 8 Feb. 2/1 Providing Malta dockyard with proper and up-to-date salvage and pumping apparatus. 1894Sala London up to Date 30 Juvenility of appearance and general up-to-date smartness.
2. a. pred. Of persons: Having or employing the latest information, facts, or methods; keeping or being abreast of the times.
1889W. S. Gilbert Gondoliers i, A Grand Inquisitor is always up to date. 1892Spectator 5 March 339/1 The young farmer is thoroughly up to date, to use the modern catch-word. 1896Pall Mall Mag. March 397 Jimmy is up to date, and much too clever for me.
b. attrib. Having tastes, style, manners, etc., regarded as prevailing at or characteristic of the present time.
1891Star 16 Dec. 3/4 Up-to-date damsels, and eighteenth century belles. 1897McCarthy Own Times V. v. 99 The ‘up-to-date’ reader, to use a vile slang phrase of the present day, does not much care about classics.
Hence up-to-ˈdatedness (rare—1); up-to-ˈdately adv. (rare—1); up-to-ˈdateness (freq. in recent use); up-to-ˈdatish(ness; up-to-ˈdatism.
1891Bicycling News 21 Feb. 113/2 Their list..suggests cheapness and up-to-dateness. 1893Educat. Rev. May 423 His up-to-dateness..in the right view of handling history in class. 1893Pall Mall Mag. I. 75 The terrible well-informedness and alarming up-to-datism. 1902Westm. Gaz. 14 July 2/3 And this, they keep saying, is ‘up-to-datishness’. 1903Chr. Endeavour Times 5 Nov., The Academy, under its new editor, is decidedly more up-to-datish. 1928Daily Express 23 Mar. 5/4 Furnish and equip her studio charmingly..and above all up-to-dately. 1931A. Huxley Music at Night iv. 224 The public is taught that up-to-datedness is one of the first duties of man. |