state it

state it (third-person singular simple present states it, present participle stating it, simple past and past participle stated it)

1. (obsolete) To act with dignity; to act in a stately manner.
   • 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it.

• “state”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• statite, tatties