释义 |
† statize, v. Obs. [f. state n. + -ize. Cf. statist.] intr. In depreciative sense: To meddle in state-affairs.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 224 In these..cases may seculars statize, that is, deale in state affaires how to preuent mischieuous statizers, of their purpose and practises. 1612T. James Jesuits' Downf. 21 According to their doctrine of statizing, they must be stirring, tamporing, temporizing, and statizing like martiall men..in all temporal, mundane, and stratagematicall affaires. 1651Mr. Love's Case 37 That he must needs suffer for the Word and Conscience, and not for statizing out of his Sphær. Hence † statizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 134 [They voided] their thoughts of all temporizing, statizing, and seditious medlings with the affaires of Prince or Peer. 1615–16Boys Wks. (1622) 160 The bloudy practises of turbulent and statizing Iesuites. Ibid. 224 So the Iesuite is a statizing Priest, a Court-rabbi. Ibid. 458 Statising worldlings on the contrarie thinke that Preacher of the word [etc.] 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 18 By this people the rudiments of civill behaviour, of Lawes, good Customes, Statizing, Merchandizing, Oratorie, and Dialect, have beene bettered, if not invented. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. xvi. 233 By his statizing, and dangerous activity, he had so incensed the Queens Councill, that [etc.]. 1657Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. ii. 325 The upstart broode of perverted statising Loyalists. |