statary

Fixed; settled.

Adjective

  1. Fixed; settled.
    • Eciton army ants have a bi-phasic lifestyle alternating between a nomadic phase and a statary phase. In the statary phase they remain in the same location every night.
    • The set and statary times of paring of nails and cutting hair. - 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

Origin

Latin statarius (“standing fast”), from stare (“to stand”).