Part 3935

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.</def>

<blockquote>See what a vast <b>estate</b> he left his son. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I call matters of <b>estate</b> not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth manifestly any great portion of people. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; <as>as, the <ex>estates</ex> of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons</as>.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; <as>as, an <ex>estate</ex> for life, for years, at will, etc.</as></def>

<i>Abbott.</i>

<cs><col>The fourth estate</col>, <cd>a name often given to the public press.</cd></cs>

<h1>Estate</h1> <Xpage=511>

<hw>Es*tate"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To establish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Tom settle as a fortune.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To endow with an estate.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>Then would I . . . <b>Estate</b> them with large land and territory. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Estatlich, Estatly</h1> <Xpage=511>

<hw><hw>Es*tat"lich</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Es"tat*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE.]</ety> <def>Stately; dignified.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Esteem</h1> <Xpage=511>

<hw>Es*teem"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Esteemed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Esteeming</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>estimer</ets>, L. <ets>aestimare</ets>, <ets>aestumare</ets>, to value, estimate; perh. akin to Skr. <ets>ish</ets> to seek, strive, and E. <ets>ask</ets>. Cf. <er>Aim</er>, <er>Estimate</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.</def>

<blockquote>Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly <b>esteemed</b> the Rock of his salvation. <i>Deut. xxxii. 15.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thou shouldst (gentle reader) <b>esteem</b> his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence. <i>Bp. Gardiner.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Famous men, -- whose scientific attainments were <b>esteemed</b> hardly less than supernatural. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To set a high value on; to prize; to regard with reverence, respect, or friendship.</def>

<blockquote>Will he <b>esteem</b> thy riches? <i>Job xxxvi. 19.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>You talk kindlier: we <b>esteem</b> you for it. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>