estate —
“'Twas of some,”
HAMLET, v. 1. 215.
Here, with the present reading, “estate” means “high rank” (not, as Johnson explains it, “person of high rank,” though that meaning would suit the reading of the
folio, “'Twas some estate”).
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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