▪ I. stade1
(steɪd)
[Anglicized form of stadium. Cf. F. stade and stadie; also stage n.]
1. a. An ancient measure of length; = stadium 1.
| c 1537 Paynel in De Benese Measurynge Lande Pref. + iiij, Famouse quantytes, as a fynger..a pase, a perche, a stade and a myle. 1554 W. Pratte Aphrique D viij b, Meroe..is an Ilonde in forme of a tryangle..and dothe extende almost thre thousand Stades. 1600 J. Melvill Autobiog. & Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 420 A mightie erthquak..reased the halff of the montean Eroge,..and caried it four stades, that is, halff a myll. 1642 H. More Song of Soul ii. App. 41 Distances..such as were of yore, Measur'd by leagues, miles, stades. 1800 Rennell Geogr. Syst. Herodotus ii. 13 In common acceptation we find a stade commensurate to a furlong. Ibid., The Grecian itinerary stade. 1838 Leake in Jrnl. R. Geog. Soc. IX. 1 On the Stade, as a Linear Measure. 1869 H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 128 Strabo says that the ruins..were situated above Demetrias, at seven stades distance from it. 1885–94 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Jan. xxix, On the eastern coast, some forty stades, There stood a temple of her goddess foe. |
b. A stadium or course for foot-racing. Also attrib. rare.
| 1875 Browning Aristoph. Apol. 16 When he had run life's proper race and worked Quite to the stade's end. Ibid. 18 He..Turned stade-point but to face Activity. |
† 2. a. A stage in a journey. b. A stage in the progress of a disease: = stadium 3. Obs.
| 1616 J. Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. vi. 91 Post horse he laid at everie fittinge stade. 1710 T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 274 Such a Consumption as is not yet gone beyond its first Stade. |
3. Geol. (See quot. 1961); = stadial n., stadium 5.
| 1961 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists XLV. 660/2 A stade was a climatic episode within a glaciation during which a secondary advance of glaciers took place. 1964 Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Survey No. 501-d. 104/2 Currently, the oldest group of moraines define the early stade of Bull Lake Glaciation, and the middle and youngest groups together define the late stade. 1974 Nature 26 Apr. 752/2 The ‘cold’ water fauna [belongs] to the period of the Loch Lomond readvance stade. |
▪ II. † stade2 Obs.
[ad. Sp. estado:—L. status standing: see state n.]
A fathom.
| 1604 E. G[rimstone] tr. Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xxi. 187 Of fifteene stades deepe, (which is the height of a man or more). Ibid. iv. vi. 223. |
▪ III. † stade3 Obs. rare—1.
[a. Du. stad (MDu. stat, inflected stade.]
Chief town.
| 1481 Caxton Reynard i. (Arb.) 5 The lyon..wolde in the holy dayes of thys feeste holde on open Court at stade. |
▪ IV. † stade4 Obs.
[? Stade, name of a town in Hanover.]
Some textile fabric.
| 1714 French Bk. Rates 82 Stuffs Stades per Piece of 18 Ells 08 00. |