What is "nascent state"

State \State\ (st[=a]t), n. [OE. stat, OF. estat, F. ['e]tat, fr. L. status a standing, position, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand, and cf. Estate, Status.]

1. The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

   State is a term nearly synonymous with ``mode,'' but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent.
   --Sir W. Hamilton.

   Declare the past and present state of things.
   --Dryden.

   Keep the state of the question in your eye.
   --Boyle.

2. Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.

   Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me.
   --Shak.

3. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

   She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.
   --Bacon.

   Can this imperious lord forget to reign, Quit all his state, descend, and serve again?
   --Pope.

4. Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.

   Where least of state there most of love is shown.
   --Dryden.

5. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. [Obs.]

   His high throne, . . . under state Of richest texture spread.
   --Milton.

   When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl.
   --Swift.

6. Estate; possession. [Obs.]
   --Daniel.

   Your state, my lord, again is yours.
   --Massinger.

7. A person of high rank. [Obs.]
   --Latimer.

8. Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.

9. The principal persons in a government.

   The bold design Pleased highly those infernal states.
   --Milton.

10. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.

11. A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. [Obs.]

    Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame.
    --Dryden.

12. A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united under one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.

    Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state.
    --Blackstone.

    The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop.
    --R. Choate.

13. In the United States, one of the commonwealths, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stand in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealths, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.

    Note: The term State, in its technical sense, is used in distinction from the federal system, i. e., the government of the United States.

14. Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.

    Note: When state is joined with another word, or used adjectively, it denotes public, or what belongs to the community or body politic, or to the government; also, what belongs to the States severally in the American Union; as, state affairs; state policy; State laws of Iowa.

    Nascent state. (Chem.) See under Nascent.

    Secretary of state. See Secretary, n., 3.

    State bargea royal barge, or a barge belonging to a government.

    State bed, an elaborately carved or decorated bed.

    State carriage, a highly decorated carriage for officials going in state, or taking part in public processions.

    State paper, an official paper relating to the interests or government of a state.
    --Jay.

    State prison, a public prison or penitentiary; -- called also State's prison.

    State prisoner, one in confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense.

    State rights, or States' rights, the rights of the several independent States, as distinguished from the rights of the Federal government. It has been a question as to what rights have been vested in the general government. [U.S.]

    State's evidence. See Probator, 2, and under Evidence.

    State sword, a sword used on state occasions, being borne before a sovereign by an attendant of high rank.

    State trial, a trial of a person for a political offense.

    States of the Church. See under Ecclesiastical.

    Syn: State, Situation, Condition.

    Usage: State is the generic term, and denotes in general the mode in which a thing stands or exists. The situation of a thing is its state in reference to external objects and influences; its condition is its internal state, or what it is in itself considered. Our situation is good or bad as outward things bear favorably or unfavorably upon us; our condition is good or bad according to the state we are actually in as respects our persons, families, property, and other things which comprise our sources of enjoyment.

    I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy.
    --Milton.

    We hoped to enjoy with ease what, in our situation, might be called the luxuries of life.
    --Cook.

    And, O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse?
    --Cowley.

Nascent \Nas"cent\, a. [L. nascens, -entis, p. pr. nasci to be born. See Nation, and cf. Naissant.]

1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

   Nascent passions and anxieties.
   --Berkley.

2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced; as, nascent oxygen.

   Nascent state (Chem.), the fleeting or momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound, and not yet united with another, -- a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly active chemical properties; as, hydrogen in the nascent state is a strong reducer.

The nascent state (Statu Nascenti) is defined as a psychological process of destructuration- reorganization where the individual becomes capable of merging with other persons and creating a new collectivity with a very high degree of solidarity. This concept was first defined by Francesco Alberoni, a prominent Italian sociologist, journalist, and professor in Sociology, in his book Statu Nascenti. However, the concept is referred to in much of his work. In his book Falling in Love and Loving, Alberoni defends that there are similarities to be found between massive collective movements and love relationships:

Up till now, sociologists, psychologists, and philosophers have displayed a sort of repugnance or embarrassment in admitting that there is something in common—or better, something identical—to be found both in great historical processes like Islam, the French Revolution, or the Russian Revolution and in such personal, banal phenomena as the experience of falling in love. [...]

In an analogous way, the falling-in-love process is the simplest form of a collective movement. [...]

The definition given of the falling-in-love process (i.e. the nascent state of a collective movement made up of two people) offers us a theoretical slot in which to position this mysterious phenomenon of collective movements. Not only, but the same definition provides us with an extraordinary tool for investigating the nature of all such movements.

Therefore, falling in love is seen as the nascent state of a collective movement formed of two people only. According to Francesco Alberoni, the phenomenology of falling in love is the same for young people and adults, for men and women and for homosexuals and heterosexuals. This is because the structure of the nascent state is always the same.

Nascent state or in statu nascendi ( Lat. newly formed moiety: in the state of being born or just emerging), in chemistry, refers to the form of a chemical element (or sometimes compound) in the instance of their liberation or formation. Often encountered are atomic oxygen (O), nascent hydrogen (H), and similar forms of chlorine (Cl) or bromine (Br). The monatomic nascent forms tend to be more reactive than their most common forms.

Nascent state is a psychological process of destructuration-reorganization.

Nascent state may also refer to:

• Nascent state (chemistry), the form of a chemical element (or compound)
• In statu nascendi, a Latin phrase