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Statist   Listen
noun
Statist  n.  
1.
A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government. (Obs.) "Statists indeed, And lovers of their country."
2.
A statistician.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Statist" Quotes from Famous Books



... reason we have seen assigned for passing him by,—that he represented the most advanced doctrines of his party. He, more than any other man, combined in himself the moralist's oppugnancy to Slavery as a fact, the thinker's resentment of it as a theory, and the statist's distrust of it as a policy,—thus summing up the three efficient causes that have chiefly aroused and concentrated the antagonism of the Free States. Not a brilliant man, he has that best gift of Nature, ...
— The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V - Political Essays • James Russell Lowell
... "that I had such a servant, or rather that I were worthy to have such a one! I had not then been in this unfortunate situation, which, nevertheless, I should hardly regret, could I but discover any means of securing the services of so experienced a statist." ...
— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott


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