A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

by Richard Chenevix Trench

Their safety in monarchal reign;

Finding their freedom in a state

Is but proud strutting in a chain.

Davenant, The Dream.

Those very Jews, who, at their very best

Their humour more than loyalty expressed,

Thought they might ruin him, they could create;

Or melt him to a golden calf, a state.

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 66.

Stationer. There was a time when ‘stationer,’ meaning properly no more than one who had his station, that is, in the market-place or elsewhere, included the bookseller and the publisher, as well as the dealer in the raw material of books. But when, in the division of labour, these became separate businesses, the name was restrained to him who dealt in the latter articles alone.