v. [UN-2 6 b.]
1. trans. To deprive of state, rank, or estate.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LXXXIX. xiv. Takes he his weapon? thou the edge rebatest…. Would march with kingly pomp? thou him unstatest.
1605. Shaks., Lear, I. ii. 108. I would vnstate my selfe, to be in a due resolution.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. viii. 490/2. [They] proceeded to vnstate him of that goodliest portion of France.
1624. F. White, Repl. Fisher, 572. The Romane Pope hath a direct power to depose and vnstate them [sc. kings].
1879. J. Todhunter, Alcestis, 30. Alack! the best of us May Zeus unstate.
2. To deprive of the character of a state.
1647. Ward, Simp. Cobler, 22. States are unstated, Rulers growne Over-rulers … Churches decayed.
