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States General Hist.
Also 6 general states.
[= F. états généraux, Du. staaten generaal.]
A legislative assembly representing the three estates, viz. clergy, nobles, and commons or burghers of a whole realm, principality, or commonwealth (distinguished from states provincial): a. in France before the Revolution; b. in the Netherlands from the 15th c. to 1796.
1585J. Norris in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1903) Apr. 317 The Councell established in this towne for the generall states. Ibid. 318, I haue deferred to send..myndinge to morrowe..to repaire to the states generall in Hollande. 1646Howell Lewis XIII, ii. 40 The Assembly of the States General. 1673Temple Observ. United Prov. ii. 75 As the States-General cannot make War or Peace..without the consent of every Province; so cannot the States-Provincial conclude any of those points without the consent of each of the Cities. 1677Dryden State Innoc. i. i, Most high and mighty Lords, who better fell From Heav'n, to rise States-General of Hell. 1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 345 A Rabble is a Congregation, or Assembly of the States-General sent from their several and respective Shops, Stalls, and Garrets. 1792A. Young Trav. France 108 They..assert that his letting the king go to the states-general, before their powers were verified,..was madness. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xv. 265 The States General answer to the parliament of the three estates. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. viii. 240 Under the command of the stadholder and the states general. |