n. The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fort.) A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. arrestation, LL. arrestatio. ] Arrest. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. attestatio: cf. F. attestation. ] The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of attestation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. circumgestare to carry around; circum + gestare to carry. ] The act or process of carrying about. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Joint estate. Smolett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. contestatio testimony: cf. F. contestation a contesting. ] 1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. “Loverlike contestation.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A solemn contestation ratified on the part of God. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dehonestatus, p. p. of dehonestare to dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see Honest. ] To disparage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dehonestatio. ] A dishonoring; disgracing. [ Obs. ] Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To detest. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. detestatio: cf. F. détestation. ] The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are heartily agreed in our detestation of civil war. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. estat, F. état, L. status, fr. stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. State. ] 1. Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation. “When I came to man's estate.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Romans xii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Social standing or rank; quality; dignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person of high rank. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She's a duchess, a great estate. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee. Mark vi. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

See what a vast estate he left his son. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth manifestly any great portion of people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. pl. 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, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fourth estate, a name often given to the public press. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To establish. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tom settle as a fortune. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To endow with an estate. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then would I . . .
Estate them with large land and territory. Tennyson.

{ } a. [ OE. ] Stately; dignified. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. gestatio a bearing, carrying, fr. gestare to bear, carry, intens. fr. gerere, gestum, to bear: cf. F. gestation. See Gest deed, Jest. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gestatorius that serves for carrying: cf. F. gestatoire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Pertaining to gestation or pregnancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being carried or worn. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of honesting; grace; adornment. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. infestatio: cf. F. infestation. ] The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Free from the infestation of enemies. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intestatus; pref. in- not + testatus, p. p. of testari to make a will: cf. F. intestat. See Testament. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) A person who dies without making a valid will. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Majestic. [ Obs. ] E. Pocock. Dr. J. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. manifestatio: cf. F. manifestation. ] 1. The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which manifests; a phenomenon which gives evidence of something hidden; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation; the delayed manifestation of a disease. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The secret manner in which acts of mercy ought to be performed, requires this public manifestation of them at the great day. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The materialization or apparition of a spirit; -- a phenomenon claimed to be seen by spiritualists. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. molestation. ] The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obtestatio. ] The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Antonio asserted this with great obtestation. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chief ruler; a potentate. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. “An irous potestate.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. potestativus, fr. potestas power: cf. F. potestatif. See Potent. ] Authoritative. [ Obs. ] Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praestatio a performing, paying, fr. praestare: cf. F. prestation. ] (O. Eng. Law) A payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering of a service. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prestation money, a sum of money paid yearly by archdeacons and other dignitaries to their bishop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. protestatio: cf. F. protestation. See Protest. ] 1. The act of making a protest; a public avowal; a solemn declaration, especially of dissent. “ The protestation of our faith.” Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. protestateur. ] One who makes protestation; a protester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of converting again into a forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reestablish. [ Obs. ] Walis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n replanting with trees; reconversion into a forest; the act of reforesting. [ PJC ]

v. t. To state anew. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. testatus, p. p. of testari. See Testament. ] (Law) Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. testatio. ] A witnessing or witness. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. testateur. ] (Law) A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] (Law) A woman who makes and leaves a will at death; a female testator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Uterus + gestation. ] Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy. Pritchard. [ 1913 Webster ]