Obs. [med. or mod.L., a. Gr. σύστασις composition, collection, union, alliance, f. σύν SYN- + στα- (see SYSTATIC).]
1. The act, or the result, of setting or putting together; combination, synthesis. Also, system.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. xvii. § 11. Other diversities of Methods … as that of Resolution or Analysis, of Constitution or Systasis, of Concealment or Cryptique.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, iv. 68. The three substances…; That is, the indivisible or divine, the divisible or corporeal, and that third, which was the Systasis or harmony of those two, in the mystical decussation.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 201. An … Exultation of the whole Systasis of the Spirits.
2. A political union or confederation. (Cf. SYNCRETISM.)
1790. Burke, Rev. France, 328. The municipal army … is a worse preservative of a general constitution, than the systasis of Crete, or the confederation of Poland.
