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stated, ppl. a.|ˈsteɪtɪd|
[f. state v. + -ed1. In early use perh. rather f. L. stat-us appointed, fixed, regular (see state a.) + -ed1.]
†1. Fixed, regular in operation or occurrence; not occasional or fluctuating. Obs.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 124 Extra⁓ordinary singular courses, sometimes intervenient in naturall processes, alter not the generall, stated, habituall course of nature. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 162 That altho' there were no stated Inhabitants who liv'd on the Spot; yet that there might sometimes come Boats off from the Shore. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 188 ⁋2 The pleasure which men are able to give in conversation, holds no stated proportion to their knowledge or their virtue. a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. II. 134 Thus every four-and-twenty hours they have two regular and stated winds.
2. a. Of times, amounts, etc.: Fixed or settled by authority, agreement, custom, promise, or prearrangement.
1667O. Heywood Heart-Treas. xi. 129 'Tis good for a Christian to keep up set and stated times of prayer. 1690Child Disc. Trade i. 30 If a low stated Interest by Law be the cause of Riches, no Country would be poor,..all having it in their power to state their Interest as low as they please by Law. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. IV. 341 None but men already possessed of a stated fortune, were allowed a privilege of carrying a gun. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 606 'Tis not enough that Greek and Roman page, At stated hours, his freakish thoughts engage. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1823) 30 [He] Opens the book, and reverentially The stated portion reads. 1821Bayley Tower Lond. i. 194 A keeper, appointed by the king's letters patent, with a stated salary. 1823Southey Penins. War I. 387 All the French troops in Andalusia were to proceed by stated journies. 1884E. Yates Recoll. II. 202, I should get rid of the long familiar life of the Office, with its stated hours of attendance.
b. Of an action, ceremony, observance, etc.: Having its fixed time and manner; ‘set’, not casual.
stated meeting, one of the regular periodical meetings (of a society, an Oxford College) as distinguished from meetings occasionally called.
1697(title), Stated Christian Conference asserted to be a Christian duty; or A plea for stated Conference. 1698M. Henry Life P. Henry x. (1699) 165 It is of use in stated Prayer, ordinarily to observe a Method, according to the several Parts of Prayer. 1734Watts Reliq. Juv. (1789) 49 When a whole family sits down together, to make a regular and stated meal. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 61 This..is the proper course to be taken by ordinary Christian teachers, in their stated expositions of Scripture. 1866Harper's Mag. Apr. 676/2 At one of their stated weekly meetings recently there was a large attendance. 1867Ruskin Time & Tide iii. §12 Invite trustworthy persons of other classes to join your council; appoint time and place for its stated sittings. 1907Colonial Soc. Massachusetts Apr. 280 A Stated Meeting of the Society was held..on Thursday. Ibid., The Records of the last Stated Meeting were read and approved. 1915(16 June) in Oxf. Univ. Gaz., At a Stated General Meeting held to-day the College [Brasenose] made a grant of {pstlg}100 to the General Fund of the University.
c. Of a functionary, an employment: Recognized, regular, official.
1752Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 251 W. Harding who..was a stated Preacher. 1808W. Wilson Dissenting Churches II. 28 The relish of his labour excited a desire after a stated ministry. 1861Contrib. Eccl. Hist. Connecticut 221 There is a disposition to supersede this ministry of pastors, by a ministry of stated supplies;—men employed to perform the duties of a pastor, but not inducted, in any appropriate way into the pastoral office. 1911Webster s.v., Stated clerk, in the Presbyterian churches of the United States, the secretary of a court.
†d. Definitely recognizable, decided; declared, avowed. Obs.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 82 If Holiness of state here be a stated separation of the person from the world, to God. 1680Spirit of Popery 51 He..saith, That the King Erects a Papacy in himself more absurdly than the Pope did; and saith, That he is a stated Antichrist. 1687[Shields] Hind let loose 411 Nay, we are by this obliged, if ever we be in case, to bring these stated Enemies to God and the Country to condign punishment. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 225 To carry me directly on to..Repentance..and..to a stated Reformation.
3. (In senses 7, 8 of the vb.)
a. Of a law, rule, penalty: Formulated, explicitly set forth.
1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 461 Now the Law obliges us under a certain stated Penalty to do and forbear what it commands and forbids. 1694Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1709) 133 Particular Satisfaction for every Affront in Conversation cannot be Awarded by Stated Laws. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 92 What equity is, and how impossible in it's very essence to be reduced to stated rules, hath been shewn. Ibid. 238 [Oppressions springing from sovereign power] must necessarily be out of the reach of any stated rule, or express legal provision. 1768Ibid. III. xxvii. 435 A penalty in the nature of stated damages; as a rent of 5l. an acre for ploughing up antient meadow.
b. Narrated, alleged as fact.
1787Polwhele Engl. Orator ii. 339 Adhere To stated Facts. 1909Spectator 25 Dec. 1093/1 In poetry, history, biography, and even in Holy Writ, we continually find the page..drawing its light and meaning from the stated words of quite unknown speakers.
c. stated account: a statement of account that has been agreed to by the parties to a suit.
1765J. T. Atkyns Chanc. Rep. (1781) II. 1 When the defendant sets forth a stated account he shall not be obliged to go on upon a general one, because very often a stated account would unravel a perplexed affair. 1787J. Mitford Plead. Suits Chanc. (ed. 2) 208 A plea of a stated account is a good bar to a bill for an account. 1862W. Waterston Man. Commerce 303 Stated Account, in the English law of accounts, is an account settled whether it be signed or not.
d. Law. stated case, case stated: A summary of the points in dispute, drawn up by agreement of the parties to an action, to be presented to a court or an arbitrator in order to facilitate a speedy decision.
1899Daily News 15 May 11/2 We [a firm of solicitors] take the liberty of sending you a print of a stated case herein, and of the decision of the Court of Session thereon. |