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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
State \State\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stated \Stat"ed\ (st[=a]t"[e^]d), adjective
1. Settled; established; fixed.
He is capable of corruption who receives more than what is the stated and unquestionable fee of his office. --Addison.
2. Recurring at regular times; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stated
adjective: declared as fact; explicitly stated [syn: {declared}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "stated": accessible, affirmed, alleged, anchored, announced, ascertained, asserted, asseverated, assured, attested, averred, avouched, avowed, broadcast, brought to notice, certain, certified, circulated, circumscribed, circumscript, common knowledge, common property, conditional, current, decided, declared, defined, definite, delimited, demarcated, deposed, determinate, determined, diffused, disseminated, distributed, encircled, enunciated, established, fastened, fixed, given, guaranteed, hedged about, in circulation, in print, in the bag, made public, made sure, manifestoed, nailed down, on ice, open, open-and-shut, pledged, predicated, proclaimed, professed, pronounced, propagated, proved, provisional, provisory, public, published, reported, riveted, secure, set, settled, specific, specificative, specified, spread, staple, stipulated, stipulatory, surrounded, sworn, sworn to, telecast, televised, tested, tried, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warranted
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