Relate whatLatium was, her ancient Kings : / Declare the paſt, and preſentState of things, / When firſt theTrojan FleetAuſonia ſought ; / And how the Rivals lov’d, and how they fought.
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mildstate of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.
States in which the energy has definite values are calledstationary states of a system; they are described by wave functions Ψₙ which are the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e. which satisfy the equationĤΨₙ = EₙΨₙ, whereEₙ are the eigenvalues of the energy.
Who the fuck undressed me? Try tracing back. It's now Sunday. Yesterday was Saturday. The semi-final at Hampden. I had got myself into some fuckingstate before and after the match.
2019 June 3, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “An absolute state of a visit: what the Trump and Windsor snapshots tell us”, inThe Guardian[2]:
An absolutestate of a visit: what the Trump and Windsor snapshots tell us [title]
Firſt, in princely behaviour and geſture, teaching him how he ſhould keep of a kind ofſtate, and yet, with a modeſt ſenſe of his misfortunes.
1703, “TheThebais ofStatius”, inAlexander Pope, transl.,The Works of Alexander Pope, volume II, London: H. Lintont et al., published1751, book I,page145:
Can this imperious lord forget to reign, / Quit all hisſtate, deſcend, and ſerve again ?
1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines443–447:
[…]and from the dore / Of thatPlutonia Hall, inviſible / Aſcended his high Throne, which underſtate / Of richeſt texture ſpred, at th’ upper end / Was plac’t in regal luſtre.
1712,John Arbuthnot,Jonathan Swift [uncertain], “Jack’s Charms, or the Method by which he gain’d Peg’s Heart”, inJohn Bull Still In His Senses, London: John Morphew,page13:
He invented a way of coming into a Room backwards, which he ſaid ſhew’d more Humility, and leſs Affectation ; where other People ſtood, he ſat ; when he went to Court, he us’d to kick away theState, and ſit down by his Prince, Cheek byChoul[…]
They who toStates and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech, High Court of Parlament, or wanting ſuch acceſſe in a private condition, write that which they foreſee may advance the publick good ; I ſuppoſe them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter’d and mov’d inwardly in their mindes[…]
1595,Samuel Daniel, “The Civile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke”, inAlexander Balloch Grosart, editor,The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Samuel Daniel, volume II, book IV, stanza 20,page142:
Their parties great, meanes good, the ſeaſon fit, / Their practice cloſe, their faith ſuſpected not, / Theirſtates far off, and they of wary wit : / Who, with large promiſes, ſo wooe the Scot / To aide their Cauſe, as he conſents to it ; / And glad was to diſturne that furious ſtreame / Of warre, on vs, that elſe had ſwallowed them.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to theStates, are reserved to theStates respectively, or to the people.
1839, John Beach, Thomas Clap Perkins,The public statute laws of the state of Connecticut, page35:
You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that you will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of thestate of Connecticut, so long as you continue a citizen thereof; and that you will faithfully discharge, according to law, the duties of the office of[…] to the best of your abilities.
1993, Charles E. McLure,Vertical fiscal imbalance and the assignment of taxing powers in Australia,→ISBN:
As Australia considers whether to allowstates greater latitude in the indirect tax field, it must ask what it will do when (not if) it finally decides that the federal government should enact a modern general sales tax.
2001, Angus Macleod Gunn,The Impact of Geology on the United States, page0313314446:
The Central Lowlands is often referred to as the heart of America — and with good reason: If we look at the names of the eightstates with populations of 10 million or more, this region has three of them, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan, more than any one of the other five.
1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla,Syntax[3], page92:
[…]distinctions among states of affairs are reflected to a striking degree in distinctions amongAktionsart types. That is, situations are expressed bystate verbs or predicates, events by achievement verbs or predicates, and actions by activity verbs or predicates.
2010, Nick Riemer,Introducing Semantics[4], page320:
The most basic Aktionsart distinction is betweenstates and occurrences.
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Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition tostate that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
A provision of law may not be construed as requiring a new grant to be awarded to a specified non-Federal Government entity unless that provision of law (1) specifically refers to this subsection; specifically identifies the particular non-Federal Government entity involved; and (3) specificallystates that the award to that entity is required by such provision of law in contravention of the policy set forth in subsection (a).
1996,Konrad Lorenz, chapter 5, inRobert D. Martin, transl.,The Natural Science of the Human Species[5], Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, page93:
Thespecies-preserving purposivity of higher organisms is no greater than that of the lowest forms of life, and Jakob von Uexküll was entirely justified instating that all living organisms areequally well adapted to their environments.
2017, K R Wadhwaney,Indian Cricket Controversies:
When Tony Greig, in a meaningful and provocative interview, asked Sarfaraz background of betting and match-fixing, the Pakistan "superbat" categoricallystated that it should start with Asif Iqbal and Gavaskar who, according to him, were the "original fixers"..
State is stronger or more definitive thansay. It is used to communicate an absence of reasonable doubt and to emphasize the factual or truthful nature of the communication. The poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant listedstate, when used as a synonym forsay, in his style guide forThe New York Evening Post, which he called the "Index Expurgatorius".
Some journalists prefer to follow the formula that "Peoplesay things, and documentsstate things".
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The ſhepheardes ſwayne you cannot well ken, / But it be by his pride, from other men: / They looken bigge as Bulles, that bene bate, / And bearen the cragge ſo ſtiffe and ſoſtate, / As Cocke on his dunghill, crowing cranck.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page116
