v. Obs. [f. STATE sb. + -IZE. Cf. STATIST.] intr. In depreciative sense: To meddle in state-affairs.
1600. W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 224. In these … cases may seculars statize, that is, deale in state affaires how to preuent mischieuous statizers, of their purpose and practises.
1612. T. James, Iesuites Downefall, 21. According to their doctrine of statizing, they must be stirring, tamporing, temporizing, and statizing like martiall men … in all temporal, mundane, and stratagematicall affaires.
1651. Mr. Love’s Case, 37. That he must needs suffer for the Word and Conscience, and not for statizing out of his Sphær.
Hence † Statizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1600. W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 134. [They voided] their thoughts of all temporizing, statizing, and seditious medlings with the affaires of Prince or Peer.
1615–6. Boys, Wks. (1622), 160. The bloudy practises of turbulent and statizing Iesuites. Ibid., 224. So the Iesuite is a statizing Priest, a Court-rabbi. Ibid., 458. Statising worldlings on the contrarie thinke that Preachers of the word [etc.].
1630. R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., 18. By this people the rudiments of civill behaviour, of Lawes, good Customes, Statizing, Merchandizing, Oratorie, and Dialect, have beene bettered, if not invented.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. xvi. 233. By his statizing, and dangerous activity, he had so incensed the Queens Councill, that [etc.].
1657. S. Purchas, Pol. Flying-Ins., II. 325. The upstart broode of perverted statising Loyalists.
