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STARVEGUT POINT, a cape on the south-west coast 
of Jamaica. Lat. 17. 58. N. long. 77. 45. W. 
STA'RVELING, s. An animal thin and weak for want 
of nourishment.—If I hang, I’ll make a fat pair of gallows; 
for old Sir John hangs with me, and he’s no starveling. 
Shakspeare. 
STA'RVELING, adj. Hungry; lean; pining. 
Poor starveling bard, how small thy gains! 
How unproportion’d, to thy pains! Swift. 
STA'RWORT, s. [aster, Lat.] A plant; elecampane. 
STARYSZOW, a small town in the south of Poland; 
60 miles south [of Warsaw, and 9 south-west of Radom. 
STASSFURT, a small town of Prussian Saxony, in the 
duchy of Magdeburgh. Population 1600. It has an ex¬ 
tensive salt work; 20 miles south of Magdeburgh. 
STASZOW, a small town in the south of Poland, on the 
river Esama; 28 miles west of Sandomir, and 25 north-east 
of Cracow. Population 1600. 
STA'TARY, adj. [from status, Lat.] Fixed; settled. 
The set and statary times of paring of nails, and cutting of 
hair, is but the continuation of ancient superstition. Brown. 
STATE, s. [status, Lat.] Condition; circumstances of 
nature or fortune. 
I do not, brother, 
Infer as if I thought my sister’s state 
Secure. Milton. 
Modification of any thing.—Keep the state of the ques¬ 
tion in your eye. Boyle. —Stationary point; crisis; height; 
oint from which the next movement is regression.—Tumours 
ave their several degrees and times; as beginning, augment, 
state, and declination. Wiseman. — [Estat, Fr.] Estate; 
signiory; possession. 
Strong was their plot, 
Their states far off, and they of wary wit. Daniel. 
Mode of government.—No state can be named wherein 
any part of the body of those imperial laws hath the just 
force of a law, otherwise than as custom hath particularly 
induced it. Selden. —The community; the public; the 
commonwealth. 
If any thing more than your sport 
Did move your greatness, and this noble state 
To call on him, he hopes it is no other 
But for your health sake. Shakspeare. 
Hence single state in Shakspeare for individuality. 
My thought, whose murther is but fantastical. 
Shakes so my single state of man, that function 
Is smother’d in surmise. Shakspeare. 
Civil power; not ecclesiastical.—The same criminal may 
be absolved by the church, and condemned by the state; 
absolved or pardoned by the state, yet censured by the 
church. Leslie. —A republic; a government not monarchial. 
Well monarchies may own religion’s name. 
But states are atheists in their very fame. Dryden. 
Rank; condition; quality. 
Fair dame, I am not to you known, 
Though in your state of honour I am perfect. Shakspeare. 
Solemn pomp; appearance of greatness. [Start, Su. 
Goth., pompa; staet, Iceb, jactantia, staeta, superbis gres- 
sibus incedere. Sereniusk] 
There kings receiv’d the marks of sov’reign pow’r: 
In state the monarchs march'd, the lictors bore 
The awful axes and the rods before. Dryden. 
Dignity; grandeur. 
He was staid, and in his gait 
Preserv’d a grave majestic state. Butler. 
A seat of dignity.—This chair shall be my state, this dag¬ 
ger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown. Shakspeare. 
canopy ; a covering of dignity. 
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His high throne—under state 
Of richest texture spread, at th’ upper end 
Was plac’d. Milton. 
A person of high rank. Obsolete. See States. —The 
archbishop of Grenada saying to the archbishop of Toledo, 
that he much marvelled, he, being so great a state, would 
visit hospitals. Wits, Fits and Fancies. —The principal 
persons in the government. 
The bold design 
Pleas’d highly those infernal states. Milton. 
Joined with another word it signifies public. 
Council! What’s that ? a pack of bearded slaves. 
The scavengers that sweep state nuisances. 
And are themselves the greatest. Dryden. 
To STATE, v. a. [constater, Fr.] To settle; to regu¬ 
late.—He is capable of corruption, who receives more than 
what is the stated and unquestioned fee of his office. Addi¬ 
son. —To represent in all the circumstances of modification. 
—To state it fairly, imitation is the most advantageous way 
for a translator to shew himself, hut the greatest wrong which 
can be done to the memory of the dead. Dryden. 
STA'TEDLY, adv. Regularly; not occasionally.—Why 
should not the body assume statedly the air of a thing, to 
which it is so often obliged to suit itself? Philosoph. Lett, 
on Physiognotn. 
STA'TELINESS, s. Grandeur; majestic appearance; 
august manner; dignity.—For stateliness and majesty what 
is comparable to a horse ? More. —Appearance of pride; 
affected dignity. 
She hated stateliness ; hut wisely knew 
What just regard was to her title due. Betterton. 
STA'TELY, adj. [statelig, Su. Goth. Sereniusi ]—Au¬ 
gust ; grand ; lofty; elevated; majestic ; magnificent. 
A statelier pyramid to her I’ll rear, 
That Rhodope’s or Memphis’, ever was. Shakspeare. 
Elevated in mien or sentiment.—He maintains majesty in 
the midst of plainness, and is stately without ambition, 
which is the vice of Lucan. Dryden. 
STA'TELY, adv. Majestically.—Ye that stately tread, 
or lowly creep. Milton. 
STATEMENT, s. The arrangement of a series of facts 
or circumstances, Malone. —The facts or circumstances so 
arranged; the thing stated. Suppl. to Ash and Ala/one. 
STA'TEMONGER, s. One who is versed in the arts of 
government: perhaps in contempt for an over-busy politi¬ 
cian.—I would therefore see the most subtile statemonger in 
the world chalk out a way for his majestie to mediate. Ld. 
Keeper Williams, 
STATEN ISLAND, an island on the United States, 
which belongs to New York, and forms Richmond county. 
It is about 18 miles in length, and, where widest, 8 in breadth. 
On the south side is a considerable track of level, good land, 
but the island in general is rough, and the hills high. Po¬ 
pulation 5347. 
STATEN LAND. See New Zealand. 
STATE OF THE CHURCH, or Ecclesiastical State. 
See Pope. 
STATER, an ancient silver coin, weighing four Attic 
drachms, and worth about three shillings or three shillings 
and a penny sterling. 
STATEROOM, s. A magnificent room in a palace or 
great house. 
STATES, s. pi. Nobility. Dr. Johnson. —The other 
sceptre-bearing states arose: Chapman. 
Kings, queens and states, 
Maids, matrons. Shakspeare. 
STATESBURG, a post township and capital of the 
United States, in Claremont district. South Carolina, east of 
the Wateree. 
STATES-GENERAL, the name of an assembly, con¬ 
sisting. 
