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▪ I. stade1|steɪd|
[Anglicized form of stadium. Cf. F. stade and stadie; also stage n.]
1. a. An ancient measure of length; = stadium 1.
c1537Paynel in De Benese Measurynge Lande Pref. + iiij, Famouse quantytes, as a fynger..a pase, a perche, a stade and a myle. 1554W. Pratte Aphrique D viij b, Meroe..is an Ilonde in forme of a tryangle..and dothe extende almost thre thousand Stades. 1600J. Melvill Autobiog. & Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 420 A mightie erthquak..reased the halff of the montean Eroge,..and caried it four stades, that is, halff a myll. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. App. 41 Distances..such as were of yore, Measur'd by leagues, miles, stades. 1800Rennell Geogr. Syst. Herodotus ii. 13 In common acceptation we find a stade commensurate to a furlong. Ibid., The Grecian itinerary stade. 1838Leake in Jrnl. R. Geog. Soc. IX. 1 On the Stade, as a Linear Measure. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 128 Strabo says that the ruins..were situated above Demetrias, at seven stades distance from it. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Jan. xxix, On the eastern coast, some forty stades, There stood a temple of her goddess foe.
b. A stadium or course for foot-racing. Also attrib. rare.
1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 16 When he had run life's proper race and worked Quite to the stade's end. Ibid. 18 He..Turned stade-point but to face Activity.
†2.
a. A stage in a journey.
b. A stage in the progress of a disease: = stadium 3. Obs.
1616J. Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. vi. 91 Post horse he laid at everie fittinge stade. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 274 Such a Consumption as is not yet gone beyond its first Stade.
3. Geol. (See quot. 1961); = stadial n., stadium 5.
1961Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists XLV. 660/2 A stade was a climatic episode within a glaciation during which a secondary advance of glaciers took place. 1964Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Survey No. 501-d. 104/2 Currently, the oldest group of moraines define the early stade of Bull Lake Glaciation, and the middle and youngest groups together define the late stade. 1974Nature 26 Apr. 752/2 The ‘cold’ water fauna [belongs] to the period of the Loch Lomond readvance stade.
▪ II. † stade2 Obs.
[ad. Sp. estado:—L. status standing: see state n.]
A fathom.
1604E. G[rimstone] tr. Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xxi. 187 Of fifteene stades deepe, (which is the height of a man or more). Ibid. iv. vi. 223.
▪ III. † stade3 Obs. rare—1.
[a. Du. stad (MDu. stat, inflected stade.]
Chief town.
1481Caxton Reynard i. (Arb.) 5 The lyon..wolde in the holy dayes of thys feeste holde on open Court at stade.
▪ IV. † stade4 Obs.
[? Stade, name of a town in Hanover.]
Some textile fabric.
1714French Bk. Rates 82 Stuffs Stades per Piece of 18 Ells 08 00. |