Obs. [early variant of ESTATE (OF. estat:—L. status), with atonic ă for atonic ĕ.]
[c. 1225. Hali Meid., 13. Scheaweð in hire estat of þe blisse undeadlich.]
a. 1230. Ancr. R., 178. Sik mon haueð two swuðe dredfule aestaz. Ibid., 160. Þeos þreo astaz. [Ibid., 204. Euerich efter his stat.]
1482. Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccli. 321. The kyng in his astate clad in blewe.
a. 1520. Myrr. Our Ladye, 85. They that ar in dygnite and astate of power are called goddes.
