单词 | statist |
释义 | statistn.1adj. A. n.1 1. a. A person skilled in state affairs; one having political knowledge, power, or influence; a politician, a statesman. Now archaic and rare.Common in the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > skilled or leading statist1584 statesman1592 statecraftsman1726 statesperson1972 statespeople1975 1584 Sir P. Sidney Defence Earl of Leicester in A. Collins Lett. & Memorials of State (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. c1590 Sir Thomas More (1911) 772 Hees great in studie, thats the statists grace that gaines more reuerence then the outward place. 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 222 Thereby shall be seene..whether the seculars or Iesuits are greater statists: that is, intermedlers in state affairs. 1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) 156 Statists that labour to conceive a Common-wealth without poverty, doe take away the object of charity. 1691 S. Bethel Providences of God 13 This Government of ours hath been by our late Kings carried on by tricks, which our Statists valued themselves upon, as the effect of their great Wisdom. a1706 T. Gregory Several Pract. Serm. (1708) viii. 193 Moses was a wonderful Statist, an illustrious Prince, and a great General. 1799 W. Wordsworth Poet's Epit. 1 Art thou a Statist in the van Of public conflicts trained and bred? 1848 L. Hunt Town II. vi. 8 Lord Herbert..was intended for a statist and a man of science. 1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 17 A second wreath, proposed by fools for first, The statist's olive as the poet's bay. 1908 F. H. Jackson Shores of Adriatic xix. 259 He [sc. Niccolò Tommaseo] was born in 1802, and was philologist,..statist, politician, and orator. b. A member of a conservative Belgian nationalist party led by Henri Van der Noot (1731–1827), which sought to maintain the power of the provincial assemblies, or states, of the Southern Netherlands in the late 18th cent. Usually with capital initial. historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politics of other European countries > [noun] > principles in Belgian politics > member of specific party statist1893 1893 H. M. Stephens Europe iii. 92 The first difference was between the Van der Nootists, or Statists, as they termed themselves, and the Vonckists. 1966 V. R. Lorwin in R. A. Dahl Polit. Oppositions 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. 1974 Encycl. 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. 2009 A. Arato Constit. Making under Occup. 314 The most fundamental point around which Belgian ‘statists’ and ‘democrats’ could not agree were the institutions of constitutional compromise. c. A supporter or advocate of statism (sense 3b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > pervasive government or state control > adherent of governmentalist1831 statist1898 1898 Ann. Reg. 1897 321 The referendum..cruelly disappointed the hopes of the Statists, whose proposal for a State Bank was rejected. 1950 ABA Jrnl. Sept. 712/3 The one who believes in government control of everything is a statist. 1976 National 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. 1995 E. Mlyn State, Society, & Limited Nucl. War iii. 37 Statists do not seek to determine the impact that society has on government, but instead how the state can affect society to pursue its own goals. 2010 New Statesman 25 Jan. 34/2 Yet, more important..are the divisions between the freethinking liberal pluralists (or democratic republicans) and the unreconstructed statists in the party. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [noun] statist1602 statism1609 state-churchism1742 establishmentism1851 establishmentarianism1873 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 33 They were vnworthy the name of temporised statists..if they should not denie all and change their opinions, agreeing to time, person and place. 1616 T. Scot Philomythie sig. ¶¶ Against wise vigilant Statists, who like Ianus, Looke both waies. a1660 P. S. Aphorismical Discov. ii. xl, in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 286 It is verie straunge how those abortiue statists..swarue from theire said first holy principles, traduced to the possitiue opposition therof. 1844 Christian's Monthly Mag. 2 12 Petty statists and juggling politicians, governing by the principles of a paltry expediency, rather than from the influences of a heart enlarged by the love of God. 3. A person who deals with statistics, a statistician. Now historical (chiefly Australian in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > one who deals with statist1796 statistician1800 statistic1804 number cruncher1971 1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 553 Antiquities and works of art, of a given district, are only recorded by the statist inasmuch as they are likely to promote the actual or future well-being of the inhabitants. 1803 Edinb. Rev. 2 304 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. 1846 Times 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. 1892 Daily News 29 Jan. 5/5 The Government Statist of the Colony of Victoria. 1915 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. Mar. 418 The opinion was current among European statists that to enumerate a country's population was impracticable. 1995 P. M. Gunnar Good Iron Mac iv. 81 The Treasury of New South Wales had provided its Government Statist..to provide such figures as the Committee requested. B. adj. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or advocating statism. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > other systems > [adjective] > relating to government by state statist1909 1909 E. M. Aveling tr. G. Plekhanov Anarchism & Socialism v. 81 Bakounine reiterates what he had already said of ‘Statist’ Communism. 1920 V. S. Yarros Our Revol. 43 Can anything be more democratic and less statist? 1960 New 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. 1976 K. 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. 2003 M. Hakan Yavuz Islamic Polit. Identity in Turkey iv. 88 Privatization was implemented..only to a limited extent because of opposition from the bureaucracy, large industrialists, and statist politicians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † statistn.2 Theatre. Obsolete. rare. A supernumerary actor; = supernumerary n. 2c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part > with little or nothing to say property boy1685 supernumerary1755 walking gentleman1769 walking lady1769 figurant1775 statist1807 showgirl?1836 super1838 walker-on1876 property child1885 supe1885 walk-on1923 spear-carrier1960 1807 tr. C. A. G. Goede Stranger in Eng. II. 264 The theatre at Paris possesses a far greater number of excellent dancers of both sexes than that of London; and its statists [Ger. Statisten] and figurants are comparatively more skilful than on the latter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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