statefuladj.

1604 J. Marston Malcontent i. v. sig. B4 Obserue a man, a statefull scilence in his presence: solitarinesse in his absence, a confused ham and busie murmure of obsequious suters training him.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 202 To humble suitors, neither sterne nor statefull.

1624 T. Gokin Meditations vpon Lords Prayer 5 Thou lookedst downe from heauen thy statefull throne.

1854 Opal (Utica, N.Y.) 4 171/2 Mr. and Mrs. Obotherum reside in stateful magnificence.

1882 New Englander May 408 The Faroese dance is very simple and almost as staid and stateful as the minuet.

1911 E. M. Channon Real Mrs Holyer xvii. 321 Coming over in stateful carriage or luxurious motor.

1989 IEEE Jrnl. Sel. Areas in Communications 7 486/2 An improved version of the original (‘stateful’) protocol.

1998 InfoWorld 23 Mar. 80/3 To provide stateful connections, you can specify a time period during which all connections from a given server go to the same server.

2008 PC Mag. Sept. 36/1 The firewall uses stateful packet inspection and provides basic content filtering.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God ii. iv. 58 They were brought in vppon chargers very statefully, and with a kind of religious reuerence.

1891 S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl in London 68 I was rolling up Regent Street statefully in the carriage of Mrs. Torquilin.

1991 Indiana Gaz. 2 Apr. (Real Estate Suppl.) 8 A chandelier is the crowning jewel of a statefully designed room.

1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. v. 79 in Church-hist. Brit. It is not worthy to carry the books after Oxford Library for the statefulness of the Edifice.