state it

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English

Verb

state it

  1. (obsolete) To assume state or dignity.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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