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te; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation. "When I came to man's estate." Shak. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Romans xii. 16.

Joint estate. Smolett.

To disparage. [Obs.]

To detest. [Obs.] Udall.

Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak.

A chief ruler; a potentate. [Obs.] Wyclif. "An irous potestate." Chaucer.

To reëstablish. [Obs.] Walis.

To state anew. Palfrey.

Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate. Ayliffe.

The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.

ty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

entee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

p. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.

A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier.

One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf. Bancroft.