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▪ I. statist, n.1 and a.|ˈsteɪtɪst|
[f. L. stat-us state n.: see -ist. Cf. It. statista (in Florio 1611), F. † statiste (17th c.), Sp., Pg. estadista, G. statist (from 17th c.), Sw. statist.
The word probably originated in Italian, though evidence of its earlier currency in that lang. is wanting.]
A. n.
1. One skilled in state affairs, one having political knowledge, power, or influence; a politician, statesman. Very common in 17th c. Now arch.
1584Sidney in A. Collins S. Lett. (1746) I. i. 63 When he plais the Statist, wringing veri unlukkili some of Machiavels Axiomes to serve his Purpos then indeed; then he tryumphes. c1590Sir T. More (Malone Soc.) 772 Hees great in studie, thats the statists grace that gaines more reuerence then the outward place. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 222 Thereby shall be seene..whether the seculars or Iesuits are greater statists: that is, intermedlers in state affairs. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 33. 1641 Milton Reform. 10 They suffer'd themselvs to be the common stales to countenance with their prostituted Gravities every Politick Fetch that was then on foot, as oft as the Potent Statists pleas'd to employ them. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. xiii, Statists that labour to contrive a Commonwealth without poverty, take away the object of charity. 1691[S. Bethel] Provid. God (1694) 29 This Government of ours has been by our late Kings carried on by Tricks, which our Statists valued themselves upon, as the Effect of their great Wisdom. 1799Wordsw. Poet's Epitaph 1 Art thou a Statist in the van Of public conflicts trained and bred? 1850Hannay Singleton Fontenoy iv. ii, There was a statist in embryo; there was a leading-article man. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 17 To lift along the athlete and ensure A second wreath, proposed by fools for first, The statist's olive as the poet's bay.
2. One who deals with statistics, a statistician.
1803Edin. Rev. II. 304 If Mr. Catteau's authority is called in question we are ready to corroborate it by the testimony of more than one dozen German statists. 1846Times 18 Aug. 6/3 A statist is a student of statistics, i.e. a man who computes and analyses everything that relates to the visible state or condition of man. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1880) VI. viii. 181 With these numbers before him..a Statist will quickly educe what he calls the ‘percentages’. 1802Daily News 29 Jan. 5/5 The Government Statist of the Colony of Victoria.
3. (With capital initial.) A member of a conservative Belgian nationalist party which sought to maintain the power of the provincial assemblies or States in the late eighteenth century.
1909Cambr. Mod. Hist. VI. xviii. 653 Only a short time was, however, to elapse before they [sc. States General] split asunder into two irreconcilable parties—the Statists of van der Noot..and the Democrats of Vonck. 1921E. Cammaerts Belgium 11 ‘Statists’ and ‘Vonckists’. 1966V. R. Lorwin in R. A. Dahl Pol. Oppositions in Western Democracies v. 149 The Statists, or Van der Nootists, opposed the reforms of Joseph II; they sought to maintain the customs and privileges of the established Catholic Church and the narrowly based oligarchy of landowners, masters of urban crafts, and nobles who dominated the sclerosed provincial assemblies or Estates. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XI. 157/1 Van Der Noot made a triumphant entry into Brussels, where he and his ‘Statists’ were supported by the Estates of Brabant.
4. A supporter of statism.
1976National Observer (U.S.) 24 Apr. 17/2 So much for rent control, just one of many well-meant disasters visited upon us by the statists. 1979N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 49/1 McCagg sees Stalin as a ‘statist’, more interested, that is, in building the Soviet state than in the Communist Party.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, advocating, or based on statism.
1960New Statesman 9 Jan. 26/2 Tory propagandists and Labour re-thinkers share in the admiration of the new ‘statist’ economic system we have in Britain. 1960New Left Rev. May–June 6/2 Communist and Labour fundamentalists of the ‘statist’ variety. 1973Advocate-News (Barbados) 8 May 3/2 In other systems, the cooperatives has been the peripheral to the main sector, whether capitalist or statist. 1976K. Joseph Monetarism is not Enough 17 But the whole economy is not private. Nearly two-thirds is statist, and insensitive in itself to contraction of the money supply. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 26/3 They include not only members of the intelligentsia but also working people who have experienced statist authoritarianism, rigidity, narrowness, and felt impelled to speak up, however discreetly. 1979New Society 9 Aug. 295/2 The commitment to democracy was real in the later Marcuse—including a commitment to defend existing democratic liberties against statist and fascist incursions.
▪ II. † statist, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
[a. G. statist, app. f. L. stat-us standing (see state n.) + -ist.]
A supernumerary actor on the stage who simply poses or stands by.
1807Goede's Trav. Eng. 264 The theatre at Paris possesses a far greater number of excellent dancers of both sexes than that of London; and its statists and figurants are comparatively more skilful than on the latter. |