a. Now rare or Obs. [f. STATE sb. + -FUL.] Full of state or dignity, stately.

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1591.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. vi. 342. To humble suiters neither stern nor statefull.

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1624.  T. Gokin, Medit. Lord’s Prayer, in Farr, Sel. Poetry Jas. I. (1848), 324. Thou lookest down from heaven, thy stateful throne.

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  Hence Statefully adv., Statefulness.

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1655.  Fuller, Hist. Camb., 79. It is not worthy to carry the books after Oxford Library for the statefulness of the Edifice.

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1891.  Sara J. Duncan, American Girl in Lond., 68. I was rolling up Regent Street statefully in the carriage of Mrs. Torquilin.

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