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▪ I. statesman1|ˈsteɪtsmən|
[f. state's genitive of state n. + man n., after F. homme d'état. Cf. G. staatsmann, Du. staatsman, Sw. statsman, Da. statsmand. In sense 2, a separate formation on state n. 34.]
1. a. One who takes a leading part in the affairs of a state or body politic; esp. one who is skilled in the management of public affairs. elder statesman: see elder a. 1 c.
1592No-body & Someb. A 3 b, Your words are dangerous, good honest subiect, Old reuerent states-man, faithful seruitor. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. ii. vi, For that were to affirme, that a man writing of Nero, should meane all Emperours: or speaking of Machiauel, comprehend all States-men. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 222 A gentlewoman..saide to a secular priest..if you once become statesmen, and haue dealings with the Lords of the Counsell..then I haue done with you. 1638Diary of Ld. Warriston (S.H.S.) 295 Thou prayed earnestly for the Lords direction..about..the hol busines to be trusted to the staits⁓men. a1661Fuller Worthies, Gen. vi. (1662) 16 The word Statesmen is of great Latitude, sometimes signifying such who are able to manage Offices of State, though never actually called thereunto. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. i. 550 He..in the course of one revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, States-man, and Buffoon. c1730Ramsay Some of the Contents iv, Lethington the statisman courts the Nine. 1774Goldsm. Retal. 38 Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. 1839Lytton Richelieu i. ii. 213 Where the lion's skin fell short, he eked it Out with the fox's! A great states⁓man, Joseph, That same Lysander. 1891Times 9 Dec. 5 [Lord Dufferin's] wide and varied training had made him not a politician but a statesman able to take Imperial views. 1912J. H. Rose in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 702 The optimism which was the glory of Pitt as a man, but not seldom his weakness as a statesman.
attrib.1728Swift Dial. Mad Mullinix & Timothy 17 An able statesman-bishop. 1852Tennyson Ode Wellington 25 The statesman-warrior, moderate, resolute. 1906E. G. Sandford Mem. Abp. Temple I. 260 He is also the greatest of the statesmen-bishops of Exeter.
b. humorously.
1718Freethinker No. 8 (1733) I. 31 Numbers, who were present at his Tryal and Execution (not excepting our News-Writers and Garret-Statesmen) have not been able to agree about him. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 223 Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.
2. dial. (See quots.) Cf. estatesman.
A doubtful instance of this sense, much earlier than our quots., is found in a letter dated Oxford 16 July 1695 from James Fleming to his brother Robert Fleming (‘att Rydall’), which begins ‘Quondam Staits Man’, and concludes ‘I am Your affectionate Statets Man’.
1787W. H. Marshall Norfolk II. 389 Statesmen. Yeomen; small owners. 1794A. Pringle Agric. Westmorland 30 The great number of small land-holders, or statesmen above-mentioned..doing the work upon their own estates, with their own hands and those of their families. 1794T. Brown Agric. Derby 14 The smaller landowners, provincially statesmen. 1813M. Leadbeater Ann. Ballitore (1862) 339 A statesman, which means in Cumberland phrase one who owns the fee-simple of his land, but works on it himself. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Statesman, the proprietor of an estate. 1827Sporting Mag. XXI. 27 What in this part of the world [Durham] is called a Statesman—Anglicè, a Yeoman. 1866J. E. Brogden Prov. Lincs. 1890Leeds Mercury 21 Feb., At Westmoreland Assizes..yesterday..John Metcalfe, the son of a farmer and ‘statesman’ residing at Longmarton, was charged with [etc.].
▪ II. † ˈstatesman2 Obs.
[f. States (see state n. 23) + -man.]
A subject of the States of Holland.
1665Manley Grotius's Low C. Warres 679 The Enemies Horse..violently falling into the Flank of the Statesmen, made a great slaughter. |