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† staˈtuminate, v. Obs.
[f. L. statūmināt-, ppl. stem of statūmināre, f. statūmin-, statūmen prop, support, f. statu-ĕre to set up: see statute.]
trans. To support, establish.
a1628F. Grevil Sidney i. (1652) 6 Those eminent Plants..which blast, or bite not, but rather statuminate, and refresh the Vines..or whatsoever groweth under their shaddows. 1631B. Jonson New Inn ii. vi, I will statuminate and vnderprop thee. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. vi. (1677) 346 A miraculous interposition in all the ordinary procedures of things already fully setled and statuminated by the first Divine Efficiency.
Hence † staˈtuminated ppl. a. Also † statumiˈnation.
1658Phillips, Statumination, an underpropping or setting up. 1674Hale Diffic. Nugæ (1675) 238 The God of Nature, whose standing and statuminated Law Nature is, hath so ordered it. |