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estated, ppl. a.|ɪˈsteɪtɪd|
[f. estate n. and v. + -ed.]
Furnished with an estate, possessed of ‘means’ or property; in later use, esp. of landed property.
1607Topsell Serpents To Rdr., Because we were not so throughly estated, as to maintain a sufficient Scholar to attend only upon the Presse. 1615J. Manwood Lawes Forest xx. §8 173 A Pourallee man that may keepe greyhounds must be a man estated according to this law of 1 Iac. 1729Swift Let. to Dublin Weekly Jrnl., Look upon the poor starving in your streets, while the rich and estated men live in pomp. 1758Herald No. 18. II. 40 The estated and labouring parts of the people. 1774Gen. Lee in Burke's Corr. (1844) I. 509 Men, from the first estated gentleman to the poorest planters. 1861Maine Anc. Law 299 This system was..especially disadvantageous to one class of estated proprietors. 1877Hon. Miss Ferrard I. ii. 56 The estated heretic who drives his carriage and pair. |