the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
<noun.location> his state is in the deep south
the way something is with respect to its main attributes
<noun.tops> the current state of knowledge his state of health in a weak financial state
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
<noun.group> the state has lowered its income tax
a politically organized body of people under a single government
<noun.group> the state has elected a new president African nations students who had come to the nation's capitol the country's largest manufacturer an industrialized land
(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
<noun.state> the solid state of water is called ice
a state of depression or agitation
<noun.state> he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him
the territory occupied by a nation
<noun.location> he returned to the land of his birth he visited several European countries
the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
<noun.group> the Department of State was created in 1789 [ verb ]
State \State\ (st[=a]t), n. [OE. stat, OF. estat, F. ['e]tat, fr. L. status a standing, position, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See {Stand}, and cf. {Estate}, {Status}.] 1. The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
State is a term nearly synonymous with ``mode,'' but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent. --Sir W. Hamilton.
Declare the past and present state of things. --Dryden.
Keep the state of the question in your eye. --Boyle.
2. Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me. --Shak.
3. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes. --Bacon.
Can this imperious lord forget to reign, Quit all his state, descend, and serve again? --Pope.
4. Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
Where least of state there most of love is shown. --Dryden.
5. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. [Obs.]
His high throne, . . . under state Of richest texture spread. --Milton.
When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl. --Swift.
6. Estate; possession. [Obs.] --Daniel.
Your state, my lord, again is yours. --Massinger.
7. A person of high rank. [Obs.] --Latimer.
8. 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.
9. The principal persons in a government.
The bold design Pleased highly those infernal states. --Milton.
10. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
11. A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. [Obs.]
Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame. --Dryden.
12. A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united under one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. --Blackstone.
The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop. --R. Choate.
13. In the United States, one of the commonwealths, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stand in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealths, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
Note: The term State, in its technical sense, is used in distinction from the federal system, i. e., the government of the United States.
14. 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. [Obs.]
Note: When state is joined with another word, or used adjectively, it denotes public, or what belongs to the community or body politic, or to the government; also, what belongs to the States severally in the American Union; as, state affairs; state policy; State laws of Iowa.
{Nascent state}. (Chem.) See under {Nascent}.
{Secretary of state}. See {Secretary}, n., 3.
{State barge}a royal barge, or a barge belonging to a government.
{State bed}, an elaborately carved or decorated bed.
{State carriage}, a highly decorated carriage for officials going in state, or taking part in public processions.
{State paper}, an official paper relating to the interests or government of a state. --Jay.
{State prison}, a public prison or penitentiary; -- called also {State's prison}.
{State prisoner}, one in confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense.
{State rights}, or {States' rights}, the rights of the several independent States, as distinguished from the rights of the Federal government. It has been a question as to what rights have been vested in the general government. [U.S.]
{State's evidence}. See {Probator}, 2, and under {Evidence}.
{State sword}, a sword used on state occasions, being borne before a sovereign by an attendant of high rank.
{State trial}, a trial of a person for a political offense.
{States of the Church}. See under {Ecclesiastical}.
Syn: {State}, {Situation}, {Condition}.
Usage: State is the generic term, and denotes in general the mode in which a thing stands or exists. The situation of a thing is its state in reference to external objects and influences; its condition is its internal state, or what it is in itself considered. Our situation is good or bad as outward things bear favorably or unfavorably upon us; our condition is good or bad according to the state we are actually in as respects our persons, families, property, and other things which comprise our sources of enjoyment.
I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy. --Milton.
We hoped to enjoy with ease what, in our situation, might be called the luxuries of life. --Cook.
And, O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse? --Cowley.
State \State\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stating}.] 1. To set; to settle; to establish. [R.]
I myself, though meanest stated, And in court now almost hated. --Wither.
Who calls the council, states the certain day. --Pope.
2. 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.
{To state it}. To assume state or dignity. [Obs.] ``Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it.'' --Beau. & Fl.
State \State\ (st[=a]t), a. 1. Stately. [Obs.] --Spenser.
2. Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
State \State\, n. A statement; also, a document containing a statement. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
Argillaceous \Ar`gil*la"ceous\, a. [L. argillaceus, fr. argilla.] Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey.
{Argillaceous sandstone} (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay.
{Argillaceous iron ore}, the clay ironstone.
{Argillaceous schist} or {state}. See {Argillite}.
The Party has chosen to sacrifice economic growth in favor of tighter state control over people's daily lives.
"The only way we're going to resolve this drug problem is for the federal government to work with the state government and local officials.
Klan leaders said this year's rally in part was a celebration of the state's decision not to enforce the mask law, which a state judge ruled unconstitutional after Miller's arrest.
Klan leaders said this year's rally in part was a celebration of the state's decision not to enforce the mask law, which a state judge ruled unconstitutional after Miller's arrest.
The new order was much broader and appeared directed at the millions of factories and commercial companies that have sprung up outside the state plan during a decade of economic reform.
He said the investigation would be turned over to the Will County state's attorney's office.
Saudi Arabia's readiness to compromise and the involvement of several Gulf heads of state underlined how seriously Opec takes the threat to its position.
Battle lines are drawn again, however, with two Cuban-Americans already in the race on the Republican side, state Sen. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and millionaire banana importer Carlos Perez, a prominent supporter of former President Reagan and Lt.
So despite his book's subtitle, he does not restrict himself to the immediate postwar period because the Cold War's origins lie further back, most particularly, in the doctrines and personalities of the Bolshevik state.
The state Health Department said Sunday it is paying several AIDS-infected prostitutes not to have sex.
It allows abortions if a woman's doctor deems a patient is in "a state of distress." Opponents say this in fact makes abortion available on demand.
The driver ran into a police station to escape the crowd that pursued him, but enraged citizens stormed the station, dragged him out and beat him unconscious, the state radio reported.
"Keep your eye on the state finances," says John Marino, New York's Democratic chairman and a close Cuomo adviser.
A successful override later this year in the Democratic-controlled Assembly would clear the way for the electric chair to be put back into use in the nation's second largest state. California already has the death penalty.
Then they recruited what seemed to be every senior-citizens organization in the state to say that a Thornburgh ad touting his record helping older people was riddled with inaccuracies.
In the first 26 weeks of 1990, nearly five times more cases were diagnosed in Washington than during all of 1989, when 55 measles cases were reported, state health officials said.
Environmental Protection Commissioner Leslie Carothers proposed allowing the state to override local zoning and locate solid waste disposal facilities where it wants.
Strong wind and towering 33-foot waves lashed the low-lying, heavily populated coastline of Andhra Pradesh state, knocking down hundreds of thatched huts, uprooting trees and downing power lines.
The District of Columbia has the nation's second highest per capita income after the state of Connecticut: $20,303 annually, which is 32.3 percent higher than the national average.
I don't know of a single Alaskan who wouldn't agree with that." Alaska began caring for its older residents long before it became a state in 1959.
Government ministers told the miners later that authorities could not favor one sector by granting their pay demands and appealed for an end to the strike, state TV reported.
He wouldn't comment on any political implications of naming persons from the black African state to the De Beers board.
Greece's state minister, Nikos Temelis, said after the ceremony that his country would work toward furthering cooperation between the two nations.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider only one provision: a $72-a-ton levy imposed on waste coming from out of state.
The panel also killed a bill that would have required the sale of guns from one private owner to another be reported to state police, and one that would have increased penalties for people caught carrying guns without permits.
The government of Baden-Wuerttemberg state has contributed about $1.5 million to Jewish cultural societies to help them recover from a multimillion-dollar embezzlement, a newspaper reported today.
During the trial, the judge had called the case "an unprecedented prosecution" because it involved world figures, including a former head of state who was a major U.S. ally.
Asked when he thought he would feel safe, he said, "When Charles dies." "Obviously, he is very concerned and he has every reason to be," state Department of Corrections spokesman Tipton Kindel said in Sacramento.
He has asked a state court in Santa Ana, Calif., to nullify the standstill agreement on his Ramada shares.
The Mongolians were allied with the Soviet Union in gaining independence and establishing the world's second Communist state in 1921.