Meanings
plural coestates
- Joint estate; an estate co-owned.
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[…] the Cham himself was so much alarmed at the lawless proceedings of Brut-an-tiffi, that he convoked a general assembly of all the potentates who possessed fiefs in the empire, in order to deliberate upon measures for restraining the ambition of this ferocious freebooter. Among others, the Dairo of Japan, as lord of the farm of Yesso, sent a deputy to this convention, who, in his master’s name, solemnly disclaimed and professed his detestation of Brut-an-tiffi’s proceedings, which, indeed, were universally condemned. The truth is, he, at this period, dreaded the resentment of all the other co-estates rather more than he feared the menaces of Brut-an-tiffi […]
1769, Tobias Smollett, The History and Adventures of an Atom, volume I, London: Robinson and Roberts, page 136
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