State
King James Dictionary [1]
STATE, n. L., to stand, to be fixed.
1. Condition the circumstances of a being or thing at any given time. These circumstances may be internal, constitutional or peculiar to the being, or they may have relation to other beings. We say, the body is in a sound state, or it is in a weak state or it has just recovered from a feeble state. The state of his health is good. The state of his mind is favorable for study. So we say, the state of public affairs calls for the exercise of talents and wisdom. In regard to foreign nations, our affairs are in a good state. So we say, single state, and married state.
Declare the past and present state of things.
2. Modification of any thing.
Keep the state of the question in your eye.
3. Crisis stationary point highth point from which the next movement is regression.
Tumors have their several degrees and times, as beginning, augment, state and declination. Not in use.
4. Estate possession. See Estate. 5. A political body, or body politic the whole body of people united under one government, whatever may be the form of the government.
Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state.
More usually the word signifies a political body governed by representatives a commonwealth as the States of Greece the States of America. In this sense, state has sometimes more immediate reference to the government, sometimes to the people or community. Thus when we say, the state has made provision for the paupers, the word has reference to the government or legislature but when we say, the state is taxed to support paupers, the word refers to the whole people or community.
6. A body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character as the and ecclesiastical states in Great Britain. But these are sometimes distinguished by the terms church and state. In this case, state signifies the community or government only. 7. Rank condition quality as the state of honor. 8. Pomp appearance of greatness.
In state the monarchs marchd.
Where least of state, there most of love is shown.
9. Dignity grandeur.
She instructed him how he should keep state, yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.
10. A seat of dignity.
This chair shall be my state.
11. A canopy a covering of dignity.
His high throne, under state of richest texture spread-- Unusual.
12. A person of high rank. Not in use. 13. The principal persons in a government.
The bold design pleasd highly those infernal states.
14. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country as the states general. 15. Joined with another word, it denotes public, or what belongs to the community or body politic as state affairs state policy.
STATE,
1. To set to settle. See Stated. 2. To express the particulars of any thing verbally to represent fully in words to narrate to recite. The witnesses stated all the circumstances of the transaction. They are enjoined to state all the particulars. It is the business of the advocate to state the whole case. Let the question be fairly stated.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
(2): ( n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
(3): ( a.) Stately.
(4): ( n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
(5): ( n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
(6): ( n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
(7): ( n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
(8): ( n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
(9): ( n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
(10): ( n.) Estate, possession.
(11): ( n.) A person of high rank.
(12): ( n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
(13): ( n.) The principal persons in a government.
(14): ( n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
(15): ( n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
(16): ( v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish.
(17): ( a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
(18): ( n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
(19): ( v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary [3]
See Government .
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology [4]
S ee Government
