state it

verb

state it

verb

1

Obsolete To act with dignity; to act in a stately manner.

Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it.1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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