Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

State \State\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Stating}.]
   1. To set; to settle; to establish. [R.]

            I myself, though meanest stated, And in court now
            almost hated.                         --Wither.

            Who calls the council, states the certain day.
                                                  --Pope.

   2. To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in
      gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite;
      as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.

   {To state it}. To assume state or dignity. [Obs.] ``Rarely
      dressed up, and taught to state it.'' --Beau. & Fl.