state it
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Verb edit
state it (third-person singular simple present states it, present participle stating it, simple past and past participle stated it)
- (obsolete) To assume state or dignity.
- 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “state it”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)