Definition of State

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of State

State

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.

Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.

A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.

Estate, possession.

A person of high rank.

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.

The principal persons in a government.

The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.

A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.

A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.

In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.

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.

Stately.

Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.

To set; to settle; to establish.

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.

A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

Related Definitions:

Abating, Above, Acme, All, Also, And, Any, Appearance, Are, As, At, Be, Being, Belonging, Between, Bodies, Body, By, Canopy, Case, Certain, Chair, Character, Civil, Commons, Commonwealth, Community, Condition, Constitute, Constituting, Constitution, Containing, Country, Crisis, Dais, Decline, Detail, Dignity, Disease, Document, Down, Ecclesiastical, Establish, Estate, Express, Expressly, Form, Full, Fully, Given, Government, Grandeur, Great, Gross, Growth, Height, High, Holland, Honor, Importance, In, Increase, Inhibited, Invested, Is, It, Itself, Legislature, Make, Maturity, May, Men, Monarchial, Narrate, Nation, National, Not, Of, Often, On, One, Opinion, Or, Over, Particular, People, Person, Politic, Political, Pomp, Possession, Power, Principal, Profession, Prosperity, Prosperous, Public, Quality, Rank, Recite, Represent, Republic, Seat, Set, Settle, Several, Social, Specified, Spiritual, Standing, State, Stately, Statement, States-General, Stationary, Temporal, That, The, Their, Thing, Time, To, Under, United, Up, Wealthy, Whatever, Which, Who, Whole, With

State Quotations

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald Reagan

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

State Translations

state in Afrikaans is toestand, staat, verklaar, situasie
state in Dutch is verzekeren, beweren
state in Finnish is tila, valtio, valtakunta
state in Italian is esporre, posizione, asserzioni
state in Latin is civitas, res publica
state in Portuguese is estado
state in Spanish is especificar, declarar, estado, exponer, estacion

Quotes