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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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State, Stait, v. Also: steat. P.p. also stayt, statted. [e.m.E. state (c1590), Stat(e n.] tr.

1. a. ? To explain, give an explanation, set out a reason (about something). Const. clause object. b. To set out, represent (a case); to formulate (a question, also, specif. a question to be voted upon). c. To express verbally; to declare; ? to acknowledge (something). d. To write down (an account), hence, also, require payment (of it).a. 1567 Sel. MSS Q. Mary 245.
The cause why we stait this bearer unpaste to my lord duke of Chattelauraulte unto this presente is uppon certeyne consideration, to wyt, that [etc.]
b. 1610 Dunferm. B. Rec. II 75.
Execution of poynding … to pas … in manner above stayt
1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 538.
The question … (if it were rightly stated) is about the prerogative-royal of our princely and royal Lawgiver
1672 Mackenzie Pleadings 10.
After the pursuer has stated his pursute
1685-8 Renwick Serm. 285 (see 2 below). 1700 D. Hume Diary Parl. Scot. 9.
And then the vote came to be stated, whether the Parliament should proceed to the Sheriff's procedure, or the lords' their coming in, under these words Lords or Sheriff. Carried by one vote Sheriffs
1700 D. Hume Diary Parl. Scot. 33.
Then the question was offered to be stated to allow the exportation … or not
1708 Fountainhall Decis. II 420.
Then the vote was stated, if Sir Andrew Kennedy's taking conservator dues … was relevant to infer deprivation
c. 1673 Edinb. B. Rec. X 154.
So innumerable … demonstrationes of kyndnes that though staited in ane utter impossibility of requyting them yett [etc.]
1690 Shields Enquiry Ch. Communion 35.
Or if one should take some unlawful bond … to save his life and yet may be will not confess it because he thought it not a head to state his sufferings upon, certainly he is to be reproved for it [etc.]
d. 1700 Rothesay B. Rec. 531.
To take ane accompt of the tounes collectors … to know how matters are stated betwixt them
1705 Aberd. Journal N. & Q. VI 281.
I queited him for quhat things of myne he put away that I lent him in June 1700, because he let blood of my [me] tuise and steated nothing for it

2. To settle (affairs, a quarrel). 1669 Laing MSS 374.
I pray yow advert that nothing be duin till it be rightly statted
1685-8 Renwick Serm. 285.
The Lord brought us to a clear sight of our duty, … He let us then see how to state the quarrel with the enemies, but that opportunity was slighted when put in our hands to have kept out malignants … So our provocation by taking in these that were known to have a heart malice [etc.] … hath provoked the Lord to make us feel the weight of their heavy hand since: So that instead of light there is nothing but darkness; so that the most part have never seen the ground rightly stated since

3. To state a schism, to cause it to become actual; to cause a disagreement to become irrecoverable, to bring it into being. 1690 Shields Enquiry Ch. Communion 39.
Yet for respect to the good of the Church and for preventing the stumbling of the weak and for preventing the further miscarriages of such as should have been censured we find the apostle would not censure in such a case, lest he should state a schism

4. To settle on, to be attached to; to be concomitant with (something). 1671 J. Livingstone in Sel. Biog. I 242.
Is not, then, suffering stated on as important a quarrel as ever was … The smallest point of Christ's prerogative royal is not only worth the sufferings but worth more than the eternal salvation of all the elect

5. To place, settle, install (a person) (in, into, as to a position, situation); to entrench (one, oneself) (in a point of view); to place, position (oneself) against (something). b. To install (a person) in an office; also, in an establishment of a similar sort. 1664 Pitcairn Spiritual Sacrifice 79.
After death we are judged and stated into an unalterable condition
1672 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 674.
The Lords were so stated … that hardly any thing could have been proposed against this recognition, over the belly whereof they were not inclined to go
1677 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. III 187.
The husband's taking of the bond payable to himself and wife … could never so state her in the right of that sum, as to impede the husband from uplifting the money
1680 Soc. Ant. XLV 241.
Ye may think you will escape the judgment of God, but there is an ill licklie of it quhen you state yourselves against his people
1679–89 McCrie Mem. Veitch 481.
If the author were not stated in prejudice against Ro. Hamilton, he might [etc.]
1717 Red Bk. Grandtully I clii.
Ye know how I'm stated as to the worldly affairs
b. 1690 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II 228.
The petitioner … [was] legally stated in the said office
1694 Seafield Corr. 141.
Its exspected ye will speak to … Castelfeild to send his son to Mr. Pecock to bee educat. Ye know he is ane good … maister, so that he cannot bee better staited that way perhapes in Scotland

6. To give (a person) a particular status; to constitute (a person) (as of a particular status). 1689 Acts XII 58/2.
That … the clerks should not be allowed to call the Earle of Selkirk before him least that myght steat him ane petitorie

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