[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To put (a person) into an estate; to give (a person) an estate or possession, or a secured position, in (a thing); to endow with (possessions). Rare in mod. use.
1609. G. Benson, Serm., 26. Salomons outlandish women … so much estated themselves in the bosom of the king, that they drew him and his people to idolatry.
1611. Dekker, Roaring Girle, Wks. 1873, III. 225. Estate him In those possessions, which your loue and care Once pointed out for him.
1639. J. Mayne, City-Match, V. v. I have estated her in all I have.
1670. in Walton, Lives, I. 22. [I] will quit my Benefice, and estate you in it.
1823. Lamb, Lett. to Southey, xiii. 125. In what possession has not this last name alone estated me.
1859. Tennyson, Lancelot & Elaine, 1312. Then would I … Estate them with large land and territory.
1887. Sat. Rev., 24 Sept., 413. His country seat at Wootton, wherein Mr. Zabriskie has surely estated Rousseau somewhat at the cost of one Mr. Davenport.
† 2. To furnish with an estate or property. lit. and fig. Obs. See also ESTATED ppl. a.
1625. Donne, Serm., cl. (1839), VI. 63. And in the resurrection [we are] estated and put in possession of his kingdom.
1625. Fletcher, Fair Maid Inn, III. i. This puppy being left well estated, comes to Florence.
1646. Buck, Rich. III., II. 155. Cruell Lords estated onely by their unjust Armes.
1653. Bp. Hall, Christ Mysticall, § 2. 6. Our faith … must shew us … how royally we are allied, how gloriously estated.
† 3. To bestow or settle as an estate on or upon (also rarely unto) a person. Also, To estate out: to let out. Obs.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., I. i. 98. And all my right of her, I do estate vnto Demetrius.
1622–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., II. (1682), 88. There was nothing left of the ancient Saxony to be estated upon Bernard of Anhalt. Ibid., III. (1673), 211/1. The whole Land being also his, he estates it out for no term certain.
a. 1669. Bp. King, Poems, III. xv. (1843), 109. Till he estate his vertue on his son.
† 4. To put into a certain state or condition. Sometimes with allusion to sense 1. Obs.
1605. Heywood, If you know not me, Wks. 1874, I. 238. Convert her foes; estate her in true peace.
a. 1626. Bp. Andrewes, Serm. (1641), 389. Hee liveth … to estate us in this life in the hope of a reversion.
1640. Fuller, Joseph’s Coat (1867), 66. By faith and repentance we are first estated in God’s favour.
1701. Beverley, Glory of Grace, 16. It cannot be suppos’d, such High Angelical Beings, Thrones, Principalities, Powers, should be so Estated in him and by him, under an Ignorance of him.
