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statal, a.|ˈsteɪtəl|
[f. state n. + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to a State (of the U.S. or other federation), as distinguished from national. rare.
1862E. Bates in Official Opinions Attorneys Gen. X. 388 I have no knowledge of any other kind of political citizenship, higher or lower, statal or national. 1880A. Tourgée Fool's Errand & Invisible Empire ii. xi. 489 Public education flourished as a part of the statal economy. 1949Times 7 Feb. 5/3 All the states outside this special category have already been merged with provinces or have joined one or another of the six great statal groups.
2. Linguistics. Of a passive verbal form: expressing a state or condition rather than an action (opp. actional a.).
1935[see actional a.]. 1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts v. 119 Thus have has no passive when it is statal. 1968Language XLIV. 236 The ‘statal passives’ are quite different in their internal representations from the true passives, and actually are not passives at all. 1975Ibid. LI. 362 The ambiguity is between the ‘statal’ and ‘dynamic passive’ meaning. |