ppl. a. [f. ESTATE sb. and v. + -ED.] Furnished with an estate, possessed of ‘means’ or property; in later use, esp. of landed property.
1608. Topsell, Serpents, To Rdr. Because we were not so thorowly estated, as to maintaine a sufficient Scholler to attend only vpon the presse.
1615. Manwood, Lawes Forest, xx. § 8. 173. A Pourallee man that may keepe greyhounds must be a man estated according to this law or 1 Iac.
1729. Swift, Lett. to Dublin Weekly Jrnl. Look upon the poor starving in your streets, while the rich and estated men live in pomp.
1758. Herald, No. 18. II. 40. The estated and labouring parts of the people.
1774. Gen. Lee, in Burke’s Corr. (1844), I. 509. Men, from the first estated gentleman to the poorest planters.
1861. Maine, Anc. Law, 299. This system was … especially disadvantageous to one class of estated proprietors.
1877. [May Laffan], Honourable Miss Ferrard, I. ii. 55–6. They received none of the adulation and respect accorded so lavishly to the estated heretic who drives his carriage and pair.
