statary

English

Etymology

Latin statarius (“standing fast”), from stare (“to stand”).

Adjective

statary (not comparable)

1. (obsolete outside biology) Fixed; settled.

   Eciton army ants have a bi-phasic lifestyle alternating between a nomadic phase and a statary phase. In the statary phase they remain in the same location every night.

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     The set and statary times of paring of nails and cutting hair.

References

• “statary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.