Eccl. [ad. med.L. use of late L. statiōnārius: see STATIONARY sb.]
† 1. Used to render G. stationirer, mendicant friar.
c. 1640. H. Bell, Luther’s Colloq. Mens. (1652), 285. It will ere long com to that pass in Germanic (said Luther) as it is in Spain and in France, where no Preachers are, but onely Runners up and down, as in former time with us the Stationars were.
2. (See quot.)
1868. Walcott, Sacred Archæol., 554. The Roman churches in which the Pontiff officiates on stated days are called churches of the stations or mansionary, and the assistant clergy are spoken of as stationars.
