1. prestate - Noun
2. prestate - Adjective
3. prestate - Verb
Prior to status as a state.
More primitive than a state.
prestate (plural prestates)
(computer science) The state that exists before an operation.
prestate (third-person singular simple present prestates, present participle prestating, simple past and past participle prestated)
(obsolete) To take responsibility for
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students. Lloyd deMause