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first estate

NOUN
  1. the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain

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  • Some give this sense of it: "So mutable is even the angelical nature that God would not trust angels with their own integrity; if he had, they would all have done as some did, left their first estate; but he saw it necessary to give them supernatural grace to confirm them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • A successful merchant and Alderman of London, Fitzwilliam made numerous land purchases, including the family's first estates in Ireland.
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