a. Obs. Also 7 erron. statory. [ad. L. statāri-us, f. stat- ppl. stem of stāre to stand.]
1. Standing fast or firm, established; stated, fixed; having a fixed position, stationary.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxix. 199. Both a gentleman, and a common man … may be either rich or poore: landed or vnlanded, which is either the hauing or wanting of the most statarie substance.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, I. i. 47. What is this to the Popedome? what to a Monarchie? what, I say not to their stately, but euen statarie and ordinarie supremacie in the Church?
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. xxi. 266. The set and statary times of payring of nailes, and cutting of haire. Ibid., VI. ii. 287. The observation of festivities and statary solemnities.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, V. xxi. 184. I will not plead that a tent is also termed an house … that statory, or long standing tents were quilted with timber.
2. Of soldiers: Equipped for stationary combat as opposed to skirmishing.
1623. Bingham, Xenophon, Compar. Lipsius, The Battalions haue their spaces and intervals, and the Velites in them or before them. So that the Statarie Souldier serueth the Velites for retreat.
