What is "statary"

Statary \Sta"ta*ry\ (st[=a]"t[.a]*r[y^]), a. [L. statarius standing fast, fr. stare to stand.] Fixed; settled. [Obs.] ``The set and statary times of paring of nails and cutting of hair.''
--Sir T. Browne.

a. (context obsolete outside biology English) fixed; settled.

Statary is a term currently applied in fields such as ecology, ethology, psychology. In modern use it contrasts on the one hand with such concepts as migratory, nomadic, or shifting, and on the other with static or immobile. The word also is of historical interest in its change of meaning as its usage changed.