Obs. rare–1. [ad. L. status, pa. pple. of sistĕre to place, set.] = STATED ppl. a.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 313. Neither doe we enforce any person to state tymes of the yeare [orig. nec statis temporum præscriptis quenquam astringimus]. Ibid., 323. The long processe therfore that you made of state feasts, and other gaddyng holydayes in ye yeare [Quæ igitur de consecratis anni temporibus, & festorum distributione hactenus commemorasti].
