state 
State, Iowa; Hoosier State, Indiana; Keystone State, 
Pennsylvania; Lake State, Michigan; Land of Steady 
Habits, Connecticut; Little Rhody, Rhode Island; Lone- 
star State, Texas ; Lumber State, Maine ; Mother of Presi- 
dents, Virginia ; Mother of States, Virginia ; Mudcat State, 
Mississippi; New England of the West, Minnesota; Old 
Colony, Massachusetts ; Old Dominion, Virginia; Old-line 
State, Maryland ; Old North State, North Carolina ; Pal- 
metto State, South Carolina ; Pan-handle State, West Vir- 
ginia; Pelican State, Louisiana ; Peninsula State, Florida ; 
Pine-tree State, Maine; Prairie State, Illinois; Sage-hen 
.-OIL' 
stateswoman 
lina ; Web-foot State, Oregon ; Wolverine State. Michigan ; 
Wooden Nutmeg State, Connecticut. 
14. pi. [cap.] The legislative body in the island 
of Jersey. It consists of the bailiff, jurats of the royal 
court, constables, rectors of the parishes, and fourteen 
deputies. The lieutenant-governor has the veto power. 
Guernsey has a similar body, the Deliberative States, and 
a more popular assembly, the Elective States. 
15f. A statement; a document containing a 
statement, or showing the state or condition of 
something at a given time; an account (or the 
like) stated. 16. In engraving, an impression 
taken from an engraved plate in some particu- 
lar stage of its progress, recognized by certain 
distinctive marks not seen on previous impres- 
sions or on any made subsequently unless cou- 
pled with fresh details. There may be seven, 
eight, or more states from one plate. 17. In 
bot., a form or phase of a particular plant. 
Sticta linita . . . was recognized as occurring in the 
United States by Delise, . . . and Dr. Nylander (Syn., p. 
353) speaks of a ftate from Arctic America. 
Tuckerman, Genera Lichenum, p. 86. 
Border State, in U. S. hiit.;one of those slave States which 
bordered upon the free States. They were Delaware, Mary- 
land, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. Cap Of state, 
in her., a bearing representing the head-dress worn in the 
middle ages by the lord mayor of London on his installa- 
tion, like a short cone with a ring, as of fur, around the 
head. Chair of state. See chair. Civil state. See 
rection of a state and relating to its political interests or statement (stat'ment), n. [< Kid If + -mi,,!.] 
government. (b) A newspaper selected, by or pursuant i rni.o 
to law, for the publication of official or legal notices.- * i* 16 . act of Bating, reciting, or presenting 
State nriaon in) A lail for nnlifiral nfffiiidRra nnlv tKt Verbally Or On paper. 2. 1 hat Which 18 Stated ; 
a formal embodiment in language of facts or 
misdemeanants^ and* felons awaiting trial, or : awaiting el" 8 i n f a fact or of an opinion; account; rc- 
ecution of the death penalty, and from reformatories, etc. port: as, a verbal Statement; a written xtiilr- 
[U. S.] State prisoner, sword, etc. see the nouns. im-nt : a bank slati-tunit ; a doctrinal atdti-mciit. 
State (stat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. stated, ppr. stat- Calculus of equivalent statements. See calculus, 
tablish; stablish: as, to state a day: chiefly 
used in the past participle. 
And you be stated in a double hope. 
B. Jonton, Volpone, iii. 6. 
2f. To settle as a possession upon ; bestow or 
settle upon. 
You boast to me 
Of a great revenue, a large substance, 
Wherein you would endow and state my daughter. 
Middleton and Rowley, Fair Quarrel, i. 1. 
3. To express the particulars of; set down in 
detail or in gross; represent fully in words; 
make known specifically ; explain particularly; 
narrate ; recite : as, to state an opinion ; to state 
the particulars of a case. 
I pretended not fully to state, much less demonstrate, 
the truth contained in the text. Atterbury. 
4. In law, to aver or allege. Thus, statiny a case 
to be within the purview of a statute is simply alleging 
that it is ; while showing it to be so consists in a disclosure 
of the facts which bring it within the statute. Account 
stated. See account. Case stated. See cose at/reed, 
under easel. To State itt, to keep state. See state, n. 
Wolsey began to stale it at York as high as ever. 
Fuller, Ch. Hist., V. ii. 4. (Dames.) 
=Syn. 3. Speak, Tell, etc. (see sayi\ specify, set forth. 
Statet (stat), n. [Irreg. used for stately.] State- 
the State of, etc. See commissioner. Confederate 
States of America, construct state, cotton States. 
See the qualifying words. Council of State. See coun- 
cil. Cretinoid state, myxedema. Department of 
State. See department. Doctrine of States' rights, in 
U. S. hist., the doctrine that to the separate States of the 
Union belong all rights and privileges not specially dele- 
gated by the Constitution to the general government ; the 
doctrine of strict construction of the Constitution. In this 
form the doctrine has always been and is still held as one 
of the distinctive principles of the Democratic party. Be- 
fore the civil war the more radical believers in the doctrine 
of States' rights held that the separate States possessed all 
the powers and rights of sovereignty, and that the Union 
was only a federation from which each of the States had 
a right to secede. Ecclesiastical statet, free States. 
See the adjectives. In a state of nature. See nature. 
Intermediate, maritime state. See the adjectives. 
Middle States. See middle. Military state, that 
branch of the government of a state or nation by which its 
military power is exercised, including all who by reason of 
their service therein are under military authority and reg- 
ulation. Purse Of State, in her. See purse. Reason Of 
state. See reason. Slave State. Seeslaee?. South- 
ern States, the States in the southern part of the United 
States, generally regarded as the same as the former 
slave States. Sovereign state. See sovereign. State 
Of facts, in law, a technical term sometimes used of a 
written statement of facts in the nature of or a substitute 
for pleadings, or evidence, or both. State of progress 
See progress.- State's evidence. See king's evidence, 
under evidence. States of the Church, or Papal 
States, the former temporal dominions of the Pope They 
were principally in central Italy, and extended from about 
Ravenna and Ancona on the Adriatic to the Mediterra- 
nean, including Rome. Their origin dates from a grant 
made by Pepin the Short in the middle of the eighth cen- 
tury. The territory was greatly reduced in I860, and the 
remainder was annexed in 1870 to the kingdom of Italy 
(with a few small exceptions, including the Vatican and 
its dependencies). The States, (a) The Netherlands, 
(ft) The United States of America : as, he has sailed from 
Liverpool for the States. [Great Britain and her colonies. ] 
- To keep state, to assume the pomp, dignity, and re- 
serve of a person of high rank or degree ; act or conduct 
one's self with pompous dignity ; hence, to be difficult of 
access. 
Seated in thy silver chair, 
State in wonted manner keep. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. 
To lie in State, to be placed on view in some public place, 
surrounded with ceremonious pomp and solemnity : said 
ing state affairs; state management; states- 
manship. 
stated (sta'ted), p. a. Settled ; established ; 
regular; occurring at regular intervals; ap- 
pointed or given regularly. 
It was his manner to use stated hours and places for ex- 
ercises of devotion. Steele, Englishman, No. 26. 
The stated and unquestionable fee of his office. 
Additvn. 
Stated clerk, the principal clerk of Presbyterian church 
courts in the United States, usually associated in the 
superior courts with an official called a permanent clerk. 
The stated clerk of the General Assembly is the custodian 
of all the books, records, and papers of the court, and has 
charge of the printing and distribution of the minutes and 
other documents as ordered by the Assembly, 
statedly (sta'ted-li), adr. At stated or settled 
times ; regularly ; at certain intervals ; not oc- 
casionally. Imp. Diet. 
Statefult (stat'ful), a. [< state + -ful.] Full 
of state ; stately. 
A statefull silence in his presence. 
Marston and Webster, Malcontent, L 5. 
or body politic ; public : as, state affairs ; 
policy; a state paper. 
To send the state prisoners on board of a man of war 
which lay off Leith. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., V. 31. 
2. Used on or intended for occasions of great 
pomp or ceremony: as, a state carriage. 3. 
Of or pertaining to one of the commonwealths 
which make up a federal republic : opposed to 
national: as, state rights; a state prison; state 
legislaturesstate banks. See banks, 4.-State 
carnage. See carriage. State church. See establix/ied 
church, under church. State criminal, one who com- 
mits an offense against the state, as treason ; a political 
offender.- state domain, gallantry, law. See the 
nouns. State lands, lands granted to or owned by a 
state, for internal improvements, educational purposes 
etc. State paper, (a) A paper prepared under the di- 
(stat'hud), n. [< state + -liood.] The 
condition or status of a state. 
State-house (stat'hous), n. The public build- 
ing in which the legislature of a State holds its 
sittings; the capitol of a State. [U. S.] 
Stateless (stat'les), a. [<statf + -less.] With- 
out state or pomp. 
Statelily (stat'li-li), adv. In a stately manner. 
Sir H. Taylor, Philip van Artevelde, I., v. 9. 
[Rare.] ' 
stateliness (stat'li-nes), n. The character or 
quality of being stately; loftiness of mien or 
manner; majestic appearance ; dignity. 
stately (stat'li), a. [< ME. statly, estatlich = 
MD. staetelick, D. statelijk = MLG. stateliclt, stat- 
lich = Dan. statelig, stately; appar. confused 
in MLG., etc., with MHG. "statelicli, G. stattlicli, 
stately, excellent, important, seeming; cf. the 
adv. OHG. statelicho, properly (< stat, opportu- 
nity, etc. ; akin to E. stead, place : see stead), 
MHG. stateliche, statliclt, properly, moderately, 
magnificently, excellently, etc.; as 
., lofty, < 
fied ; elevated : applied to persons or to things. 
These regions have abundance of high cedars, and other 
stately trees casting a shade. Raleigh, Hist. World. 
The veneration and respect it [the picture of the Duchess 
of Ormond] fills me with . . . will make those who come 
to visit me think I am grown on the sudden wonderful 
stately and reserved. 
Swift, To the Duchess of Ormond, Dec. 20, 1712. 
= Syn. August, etc. (tee majestic), imperial, princely, royal, 
palatial, pompous, ceremonious, formal. 
Stately (stat'li), adr. [< stately, a.] In a stately 
manner. 
Ye that walk 
The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. 
Million. P. L., V. 201. 
in politics, or dabbles in state affairs. 
Ii/i/i. Hid. 
stater 1 (sta'ter), ii. [< state + -er 1 .] One who 
states. 
Stater' 2 (sta'ter), . [< L. stater, < Gr. ararjip, 
a standard of weight or money, a Persian gold 
coin, also a silver (or sometimes gold) coin of 
certain Greek states, < wrdvat, mid. and pass. 
ioraoOat, stand.] A general name for the princi- 
pal or standard coin of various cities and states 
of ancient Greece. The common signification is a gold 
coin equal in weight to two drachmae of Attic standard, or 
about 132.6 grains, and in value to twenty drachmae. There 
were also in various states staters of Euboic and Ta ii n-tan 
standards. The oldest staters, those of Lydia, said to have 
been first coined by Crossus. were struck in the pale gold 
called electrum. At the period of Greek decline the silver 
tetradrachm was called stater. This coin is the " piece of 
money " (equivalent to a Jewish shekel) of Mat. xvii. 27. As 
a general term for a standard of weight, the name stater 
was given to the Attic mina and the Sicilian litra. 
State-room (stat'rom), H. 1. A room or an 
apartment of state in a palace or great house. 
2. In the United States navy, an officer's 
sleeping-apartment (called cabin in the British 
navy). 3. A small private sleeping-apart- 
ment, generally with accommodation for two 
persons, on a passenger-steamer. Compare 
cabin, 3. 4. A similar apartment in a sleep- 
states-general (stats'jen'e-ral), . pi. The 
bodies that constitute the legislature of a coun- 
try, in contradistinction to the assemblies of 
provinces; specifically [cap.], the name given 
to the legislative assemblies of France before 
the revolution of 1789, and to those of the 
Netherlands. 
statesman (stats'man), .; pi. statesmen (-men). 
[= D. staatsman ='G. staatsmann = Sw. stats- 
man = Dan. statsmand; as state's, poss. of state, 
+ man.] 1. A man who is versed in the art of 
government, and exhibits conspicuous ability 
and sagacity in the direction and management 
of public affairs; a politician in the highest 
sense of the term. 
It is a weakness which attends high and low : the states- 
man who holds the helm, as well as the peasant who 
holds the plough. South. 
The Eastern politicians never do anything without the 
opinion of the astrologers on the fortunate moment . . . 
Statesmen of a more judicious prescience look for the for- 
tunate moment too ; but they seek it, not in the conjunc- 
tions and oppositions of planets, but in the conjunctions 
and oppositions of men and things. 
Burke, Letter to a Member of the Nat. Assembly, 1791. 
2. One who occupies his own estate ; a small 
landholder. [Prov. Eng.] 
The old Ktutmnen or peasant proprietors of the valley 
had for the most part succumbed to various destructive 
influences, some social, some economical, added to a cer- 
tain amount of corrosion from within. 
Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere, I. ii. 
= Syn.l. See politician. 
statesmanlike (stats'man-Uk), a. [< statesman 
+ like.] Having the manner or the wisdom of 
statesmen ; worthy of or befitting a statesman : 
as, a statesmanlike measure. 
Statesmanly(stats'man-li), a. Eelatingtoor be- 
fitting a statesman ; statesmanlike. De Qitincey. 
statesmanship (stats'man-ship), n. [< states- 
man + -sAij>.] The qualifications or employ- 
ments of a statesman; political skill, in trie 
higher sense. 
The petty craft so often mistaken for statesmanship by 
minds grown narrow in habits of intrigue, jobbing, and 
official etiquette. Macaulay, Mill on Government. 
State-socialism (stat'so'shal-izm), n. A scheme 
of government which favors the enlargement of 
the functions of the state as the best way to 
introduce the reforms urged by socialists for 
the amelioration of the poorer classes, as the 
nationalization of land, state banks where 
credit shall be given to laboring men, etc. 
State-socialist (stat'so'shal-ist), n. A believer 
in the principles of state-socialism ; one who 
favors the introduction of socialistic innova- 
tions through the agency of the state. 
stateswoman (stats'wum / 'an), n. ; pi. states- 
women (-wim'eu). [< state's, poss. of state, + 
woman.] A woman who is versed in or meddles 
with public affairs, or who gives evidence of po- 
litical shrewdness or ability. [Hare.] 
