esteem (estem)

[ ous precedent, or concern eth manifestly any great portion of people. Bacon, E ays, 9. One of the orders or cla es into which the population of some countries is or has been divided, with respect to political rights and powers. In modern times this division has been into nobility, clergy, and people (now, in Great Britain, lords temporal and spiritual and commons), called the three estates. Formerly in France a legislative a embly representing the three estates, called the states - general, was summoned only in emergencies; the last began the revolution of 1789. When the crowned North man consulted on the welfare of his kingdom, he a embled the estates of his realm. Now an estate is a cla of the nation invested with political rights. There appeared the estate of the clergy, of the barons, of other cla es. In the Scand in avian kingdom to this day the estate of the peasants sends its representatives to the diet. Disraeli . The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is governed by its king or queen and two Houses of Parliament, These are commonly known as the "Three Estates of the Realm"; but this phrase properly applies to the three cla es of which Parliament is composed, viz., the Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal, and the Commons. A. Fonblanque , How we are Governed, p. 11. 10t. A person of high station or rank; a noble. Richard, Duke of Gloucestre, [was]. harde fanoured of vysage, such as in estates is called a warlike vysage, and amonge commen persons a crabbed face. Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., II. 314. She is a dutche , a great estate. Latimer . Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates [revised version, men ] of Galilee. Mark vi. 21. body of journalists, as constituting a power in the state distinct from that of the three recognized political orders. - Freehold estate. See freehold. - Future estate. See def. 5 (6).-Landed Estates Court. See court. - Legal estate. See equitable estate, and legal. - Merger of estates. See merger. Particular estate, the estate, usually a le er one, that precedes a remainder. See par ticular. Settled Estates Act. See settle. - Third estate, the common people in their relations to the state or to political power: a phrase made famous by the struggles of the representatives of this order (the tiers état ) in the last French states-general for power equal to that of both the other orders, and their final a umption of supreme authority, consummating the great revolution. - Vested estate, an estate in which there is an immediate right of present enjoyment or a present fixed right of future enjoyment, or in regard to which, if all precedent estate should instantly terminate, the right to enjoyment would immediately be in an existing person. If, however, notwithstanding such supposed termination, the right of enjoyment would still depend on an unascertained contingency, the estate is said to be contingent. And live a coward in thine own esteem. Shak., Macbeth, i. 7. Specifically-2. Favorable opinion, formed upon a belief in the merit of its object; respect; regard; liking. Who can see, Without esteem for virtuous poverty, Severe Fabric i us? Dryden, Æneid. I am not uneasy that many, whom I never had any es teem for, are likely to enjoy this world after me. Pope . 3. The character which commands consider tion or regard; value; worth. This arm that hath reclaim'd To your obedience fifty fortre es, Besides five hundred prisoners of esteeinLets fall his sword before your highne ' feet. Shak ., 1 Hen. VI., iii. 4. And let me tell you that angling is of high esteem , and of much use in other nations. I. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 50. estate (es-tāt'), v . t .; pret. and pp. estated , ppr. estating. [ se ion; settle. Sir, I demand no more than your own offer; and I will estate your daughter in what I have promised. Fletcher (and another ), Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. 1. Our nature will return to the innocence and excellency in which God first estated it. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), Ι. 672. 21. To settle as a po e ion; bestow; deed. A contract of true love to celebrate; And some donation freely to estate On the ble 'd lovers. Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. I will deliver you in ready coin The full and dearest esteem of what you crave. Webster and Rowley , Cure for a Cuckold, ii. 2. =Syn 1 and 2. Estimate, Esteem, Estimation, Respect, Regard; honor, admiration, reverence, veneration. Es timate, both as noun and as verb, supposes an exercise of the judgment in determining external things, as amount, weight, size, value; or internal things, as intellect, excellence. It may be applied to that which is unfavorable: as, my estimate of the man was not high. Exteem as a noun has commonly the favorable meanings of the verb; it is a moral sentiment made up of respect and esteem attachment, the result of the mental proce of reckoning up the merits or useful qualities of a person: as, he is held in very general esteem. Estimation has covered the mean ings of both estimate and esteem. Respect is commonly the result of admiration and approbation: as, he is entitled to our respect for his abilities and his probity; it omits, sometimes pointedly, the attachment expre ed in esteem. Regard may include le admiration than respect and be not quite so strong as esteem, but its meaning is not closely fixed in quality or degree. The nearest practical approach to the theological est i mate of a sin may be found in the ranks of the ascetics. Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 117. The trial hath in damaged thee no way, Rather more honour left, and more esteem. IMG:content-0737.jpg:[blocks in formation] esthesiogeny, æsthesiogeny (es-the-si-oj'e-ni), n. [As esthesiogen , æsthesiogen, + -y.] The action of an esthesiogen; the induction of ex- alted sensations. The transference of hemianæsthesia by magnets (the form of æsthesiogeny which has been most debated). F. W. H. Myers, Proc. Soc. Psych. Res., Oct., 1886, p. 151. dare, esteem, iv. 207. esthesiography, æsthesiography (es-the-si IMG:content-0738.jpg:[blocks in formation]