Meanings
verbstate it (third-person singular simple present states it, present participle stating it, simple past and past participle stated it)
present singular third person states it · participle present stating it · participle past stated it · past stated it
- obsoleteTo act with dignity; to act in a stately manner.
Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it.
1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
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