statist ology

[Eng. statist (ics); -ology.] A discourse or treatise on statistics. *stāt-ive, a. [ Lat.stativus =stationary; stativa (castra)=a stationary (camp), from status , pa. par. of sto to stand.) Pertaining to a fixed camp or military posts or quarters. *stāt ize, v . i. [Eng. state ; -ize.] To meddle in state affairs. ( Adams : Works , ii. 168.) stăt -o-blast, subst. [Gr. statos =standing, and blastosa sprout, a shoot.] [STATIC.] Biol .: One of a number of peculiar internal buds developed in some of the Polyzoa, and liberated after the death of the parent organism. After a time the statoblast is ruptured and there emerges a young Polyzoon, with e entially the same structure as the adult. It is, however, simple, and has to undergo a proce of continuous gemmation before a uming the compound form.