Obs. [f. STATIZE v. + -ER.]
1. One who meddles in state-affairs.
1600. W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 222. The party must … be holden for a statiser in a sense detestable. Ibid., 352. Puritanes, and such like factious statisers.
2. ? A partisan.
1616. J. Lane, Contn. Sqr.’s T., VIII. 229. The verie names of Ethel and Canac causd the fregiliens allmost leese the place, had not Algarsife’s statizers rann in, to putt some hope, wheare no hope was to winn.
