Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A setting together; a union; a political union; a political constitution; a confederation; a league.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A political union, confederation, or league.
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Examples
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It is a worse preservative of a general constitution, than the systasis of Crete, or the confederation of Poland, or any other ill-devised corrective which has yet been imagined, in the necessities produced by an ill-constructed system of government.
Paras. 375-407 1909
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[474] [Greek: Anagkaiôs phêsin, "ho gegonen, eni autô zôê ên." ou monon phêsi, "di autou ta panta egeneto," alla kai ei ti gegonen ên en autô hê zôê. tout 'estin, ho monogenês tou Theo logos, hê pantôn archê, kai systasis horatôn te kai aoratôn ... autos gar hyparchôn hê kata physin zôê, to einai kai zên kai kineisthai polytropôs tois ousi charisetai].
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850
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It is a worse preservative of a general constitution than the systasis of Crete, or the confederation of Poland, or any other ill-devised corrective which has yet been imagined, in the necessities produced by an ill-constructed system of government.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
qms commented on the word systasis
As wealth to the privileged amasses
Estrangement bedevils the classes.
It’s no longer given
A nation so riven
Can nourish the dream of systasis.
June 24, 2015
qms commented on the word systasis
When systasis was selected as Word of the Day, June 24, 2015, I wrote a limerick based on a mistaken notion of its pronunciation. This is embarrassing, especially as it follows on the discovery of my quaff gaff. I could try the eye rhyme dodge, but that would be unpersuasive in a limerick. Now that systasis is once again the Word of the Day I could delete and replace the old limerick, but that feels rather dishonest. I will let the old limerick remain. Like the corpses (or corpses in the making) of criminals that were once hung from gibbets to admonish some and gratify others, I will leave it in place:
January 27, 2017
qms commented on the word systasis
The marriage did once in bliss persist
Until she discovered he'd kissed her sis
With passion so awful
'Twas sister-unlawful
And ruptured forever their systasis.
January 27, 2017