Statist
adj, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A supporter of statism.
- 2 A statistician. dated
- 3 A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence. archaic
"[O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]"
- 1 Pertaining to statism.
"It was as if the Samizdat spirit, extended and intensified by the proliferation of do-it-yourself media, had rendered the centralised, statist tyrannies of the Soviet Union untenable."
Synonyms
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More examples"[O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]"
Etymology
From state + -ist.
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