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† ˈstatua Obs.
Pl. 6–7 statuas, 7 statuaes, statua's.
[a. L. statua: see statue n.
In mod. edd. of Shakes. the following passages have statua (or pl. statuas) where the reading of the early edd. is statue (or statues): Rich. III, iii. vii. 25, Jul. C. ii. ii. 76, iii. ii. 192, 2 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 80. The emendation is prob. right, as a trisyllable is required, and there is no evidence of trisyllabic pronunciation of statue.]
= statue n.
c1400Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxix. (1859) 61 This word statua, whiche that we transumen in to Englysshe, that is to mene an Image. 1451J. Capgrave Life St. Aug. 19 Whech man for grete sciens had a statua rered to his liknesse in þe markette at Rome. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. Ep. Ded. *2 b, With the same intention that the old Romans set vp in wax in their palaces the Statuas or images of their worthy ancestors. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. viii. §6. 44 b, It is not possible to haue the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Cæsar..; for the originals cannot last. Ibid. ii. i. §2. 7 b, Without which the History of the world seemeth to me, to be as the Statua of Polyphemus with his eye out. 1625― Ess., Building (Arb.) 552 And let there be a Fountaine, or some faire Worke of Statua's, in the Middest of this Court. 1646G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 I. 12, I stood A verie Statua, dull as my owne Mudde. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 117 A fair Table Monument..with their statua's from head to foot laying thereon. Ibid. 264 Over his Grave was..the Statua or Bust of the Defunct to the middle part of his body. |