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1823 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 8 Nov. If however, a state can make sub-states, and get them into the union, with two senators, and one representative each..[etc.].

1870 Old Guard Feb. 155/2 Pompeii..was a sub-state, with her own Senate and executive officers.

1919 W. M. West War & New Age i. 2 Its [sc. the German Empire's] substates were mostly monarchies, and the greatest of them, Prussia,..was virtually a divine-right autocracy.

1958 Geogr. Rev. 48 226 Division of large states with multiple centers into substates would greatly reduce the number of territorial divisions with low ratios.

2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 24 Aug. a12 The government's 20-page draft did not include any reference to the ‘substate’ for Muslims [in the Philippines].

1838 Sportsman Jan. 25/1 All the diseases incident to dogs are attributed..to foul feeding..; the mange, for instance, like your scrofula, is a disease arising from a sub-state of the constitution, not a super-state.

1896 S. Reber Man. Photogr. ii. 38 The actinic rays have their maximum effect in and beyond the blue end of the spectrum, reducing more of the bromide to the sub-state and giving greater density than yellow and red rays of the same intensity.

1897 M. E. W. Freeman Jerome xxiv. 304 All at once his face in the glass looked out at him with a flash as from some sub-state of consciousness in the depths of his own being.

1896 A. Besant Man & his Bodies 58 There is a point known as the critical point between every pair of sub-states of matter; ice may be raised to a point at which the least increment of heat will change it into liquid.

1899 W. Williamson Great Law xiii. 359 Atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen were again and again disintegrated in clairvoyant vision, until from the gaseous condition, they were raised to the fourth (or ultimate) etheric sub-state.

1928 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 118 167 If we were to interchange the A and B labels in the P states we should be able to say that only the even A sub-states and the odd B sub-states are present.

1958 G. T. Seaborg Transuranium Elements i. 90 The magnetic anisotropy of the salt was that expected for a pair of f electrons in PuO₂⁺⁺ occupying the magnetic substates ±3, ±2, with spins parallel.

1968 M. S. Livingston Particle Physics xii. 212 Special unitary group theory based on two fundamental states..leads to the prediction of a multiplet structure in the spectrum of substates.

2002 C. Pethick & H. Smith Bose–Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases iv. 78 The beam directed to the right..couples the ground state to the m = +1 excited substate.