stative

Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property, quality or status.

Adjective

Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property, quality or status.
- Granted, then, that the original meaning of these verbs was stative, the fact that a number of them have more or less involuntary meaning admits of a ready explanation. From the idea of becoming, in which originally...
- 2000James P. Allen: Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. Cambridge University Press The stative is a verb form used to express a state of being in which its subject is, was, or...
Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
- 1805 On the Situation, Manners and Inhabitants of Germany; and the Life Of Agricola; by Cornelius Tacitus: Translated into English by John Aikin. The camp also was weak, being no more than a common one, such as the...
- 1831 James Knox: The topography of the basin of the Tay It is evident, that a Roman station has existed at Bertha; and one of the objects of its construction here, seems to have been the command of the ford across the...

From Latin stativus.