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State-house
Also with lower-case initial.
[f. state n. + house n. Prob. suggested by Du. stathuis (now stadhuis) stadthouse.]
†1.
a. A house of state; a building appropriated to state-ceremonies.
b. = senate house 1. Obs.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 65 b, Humaine writers haue theyr vse of reprouing vices, as well as the Scriptures. It is an easie matter to prayse God, in that wherein hee hath placed the especiall state-house of his praises. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. xxiii. §4. 574 Pacuuius in Capua..lockt the Senators vp within the State-house, and offered their liues to the Peoples mercie.
†2. A town hall; = stadthouse. Obs.
1627Bp. Hall Apol. agst. Brownists §9 Wks. (1628) 578 Is it no Citie, if there be mud-walles halfe-broken, low Cottages vnequally built, no State-house? 1634Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 19 Delph hath..the finest state-house said to be in all the seventeen provinces. 1686Col. Laws N. York I. 182 The Citty Hall or State House with the Ground thereunto belonging. 1756M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 111 The State-house [at Amsterdam] you have seen a print of.
3. a. In some of the North American colonies before 1776, the building in which the public affairs of the colony or province were transacted. Also applied to the building used by an Indian people for its deliberative assemblies. Obs. exc. Hist.
1639in Virginia Mag. III. 30 A Levye..is raised for the building of a State howse at James Cittie. 1654E. Johnson Wonder-working Provid. 109 The Indian King..gathered together his chiefe Counsellors, and..afterward gave them Audience, in a State-house, round, about fifty foot wide, made of long poles stuck in the ground. 1662Archives of Maryland I. 434 The Vpper howse took into Consideracion the place for the Seateing of the State howse. 1709J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 37 In these [Indian] State-Houses is transacted all Publick and Private Business, relating to the Affairs of the Government. 1725New Hampsh. St. Papers XVIII. 1 The sd Dishonour and Inconv[en]ience may both be remedyed by building a State house for holding the sd General Assemy and Courts. 1770J. Adams Diary 13 July, Wks. 1850 II. 247 This Tilton's is just behind the State House.
b. U.S. The building in which the legislature of a State of the Union has its sessions; a State capitol.
1786E. Watson Men & T. Revolution (1861) 282 The State House, the Capitol of Maryland. 1821T. Dwight Trav. I. 495 The State-house [at Boston, Mass.]..has a most noble and commanding position. 1908W. Churchill Mr. Crewe's Career ix. 134 I'll call in on you at the State-house day after to-morrow.
c. attrib.
1671Rec. N. Amsterdam VI. 308 The Stone Well in the State-House-Yard. 1830O. W. Holmes Dorchester Giant 10 Then he brought them a pudding..As big as the State-House dome. 1908W. Churchill Mr. Crewe's Career xi. 167 Austen took his way slowly across the State-house park.
4. N.Z. (As two words.) A house owned and let by the government.
1941W. B. Sutch Poverty & Progress in N.Z. vii. 153 In the building of State houses of high quality a suggestion as to necessary standards has been made. 1964B. Crump in N.Z. Listener 11 Dec. 5/3 It was a state house with shrubs and flowers in a street full of state houses with flowers and shrubs. 1978B. Mason in Islands Aug. 15 After years of waiting, they got a State house last summer. |