[see CO- 3 b. Cf. F. coétat.] An estate or state possessing co-ordinate authority or rank with another.
1756. Gentl. Mag., XXVI. 540. To sacrifice his person and dominions, rather than suffer the liberties and prerogatives of his dear co-estates to be destroyed.
1798. Wellington, in Owen, Disp., 37. The several co-estates were then so equally balanced.
1816. G. S. Faber, Orig. Pagan Idol., 3. 671. The petty kings revolt from Chedorlaomer and his co-estates.
