statuen.

Brit.

/ˈstatʃuː/,

/ˈstatjuː/, U.S.

/ˈstætʃu/

Forms: Middle English– statue, 1500s statu, 1500s statuies (plural); Scottish pre-1700 statew, pre-1700 statu, pre-1700 statuaes (plural), pre-1700 statw, pre-1700 1700s– statue.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French statue.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French statue (12th cent. in Old French; French statue ) < classical Latin statua < statuere statute v. Compare Spanish estatua (14th cent.), Portuguese estatua (14th cent.), Italian statua (late 13th cent.). Compare statua n., stature n. 3, statute n.²

a. A representation in the round of a person, animal, etc., which is sculptured, moulded, or cast in marble, metal, plaster, or a similar material; esp. such a representation of a god, allegorical figure, or eminent person, usually life-size or larger.portrait, snow statue, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue

likenessOE

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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 891 (MED) The world..stant divided..Lich to the feet..of the Statue.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 995 For his make [sc. Lot's wife] watz myst, þat on þe mount lenged In a stonen statue þat salt savor habbes.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 111 And that they myght no more lifte theyr swerdes than myght statues or ymages.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 283 In buying statuies [sic] or standing images, they spend their substance.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles v. 14 And to remember what he does, Build his Statue to make him glorious.

1634 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xii. 110 Besides, Rounds (so Painters call Statues and their fragments) may be had, when the life cannot.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 132 The statue seem'd to breathe, And soften into flesh, beneath the touch Of forming art.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 231 The drapery of this statue is much admired.

1833 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Wales I. at Eglwys-Newydd The hall is paved with Mona marble, and is embellished with a Grecian statue of Bacchus.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 571 For the execution of a marble statue the sculptor first models a preliminary sketch on a small scale in clay or wax.

1946 Times 16 Aug. 5/6 France, to whose honour Mestrovich once raised a statue in Belgrade.

1990 Gourmet Nov. 202/1 A statue of Nelson that antedates its London counterpart.

2010 New Yorker 16 Aug. 40/3 Outside the church, there is a statue of a boar.

b. figurative and in similative use, esp. with reference to being motionless or silent.

ΚΠ

1579 T. Churchyard Gen. Rehearsall Warres sig. Dd.iij^v A Figge for those, that stands like statues still, And stares in face, to feede thei knowe not what.

1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow sig. K3^v Philamour standing like a statue of stone, as if lately transformed with Medusa.

1606 M. Sutcliffe Subversion Robert Parsons xii. 98 Ordination of Ministers belongeth to true Bishops, & not to blockish statues, called Popes.

1637 J. Milton Comus 23 If I but wave this wand, Your nervs are all chain'd up in alabaster [printed alablaster], And you a statue.

1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 154 Shee..guilty of the Bill, Stood as a Statue, silent, husht and still.

1702 Good Advice to Ladies 4 Just like a Statue stands the patient Wife, And dare not speak one word to save her Life.

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams II. v. 67 He looked the statue of despair.

1823 Ld. Byron Island iii. iv. 51 Still as a statue..He stood.

1883 Harper's Mag. July 204/1 His temple encountered a cold pistol, and a policeman immovable as a statue.

1914 tr. G. Leroux Secret of Night ix. 209 She was the statue of hate and vengeance.

1994 D. Gilb Last Known Resid. of Mickey Acuña ii. 33 Charles Towne had completely stopped whatever else it was he was doing—he was a statue of attention.

†2. More generally: an effigy; an image, a portrait. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation

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c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 117 The rede statue of Mars with spere and targe So shyneth in his white Baner large.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xi. 112 To..birn ȝon Troians statw in flamb funerall.

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Div^v And Troian statue throwe into the flame.

1615 E. Howes Stow's Annales (new ed.) 815 And when they beheld her [sc. Queen Elizabeth's] statue or picture lying vppon the coffin..hauing a Crowne vppon the head thereof, and a ball and scepter in either hand: there was such a generall..weeping, as the like hath not beene seene.

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) v. iii. 79 SJ [sc. Sir John]. Your Neeces..crave humbly Though absent in their bodys, they may take leave Of their late suitors statues. Luke. There they hang.

3. Usually in plural. Any of various children's games in which players must stand still in different postures. Also more fully game of statues, statue game, statues game. Cf. musical statues n. at musical adj. Compounds 2b.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others

buckle-pit1532

marrowbone1533

put-pin?1577

primus secundus1584

fox in the hole1585

haltering of Hick's mare1585

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Jack-in-the-box1600

a penny in the forehead1602

buckerels1649

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thread-needle1751

thrush-a-thrush1766

runaway ring?1790

Gregory1801

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French and English1820

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King of Cantland1825

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hen and chickens1843

king of the castle1843

King Caesar1849

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old witch1881

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twos and threes1896

last across (the road)1904

step1909

king of the hill1928

Pooh-sticks1928

trick or treat1928

stare-you-out1932

king of the mountain1933

dab cricket1938

Urkey1938

trick-or-treating1941

seven-up1950

squashed tomato1959

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Pog1993

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1839 tr. J.-P. Brès Social Amusem. iv. 121 The young people sometimes played this game of statues with the addition of music.

1871 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 678/2 There is the ‘Game of Statues’.

1915 Primary Educ. Jan. 48/2 A good way to quiet children when they become restless is to play the ‘statue game’.

1935 E. Farjeon Nursery in Nineties v. 240 She quickly suggests a game, Magical Music, or Forfeits, or Statues. She..thumps the only tune to which Statues can be played.

1973 S. Kydd For you War is Over xi. 294 Several dead soldiers..were frozen into grotesque positions like some macabre 'Statues' game.

1986 T. C. Leonard Power of Press vii. 207 Officeholders..usually appear to be fleeing the camera or caught at playing a children's game of Statue.

2004 K. MacAlister Corset Diaries 76 No one moved a muscle; it was like they were all playing a game of statues.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

† statue-craft n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1634 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xii. 110 Such as are well seene in statue-craft.

1881 T. Woolner Pygmalion x. 152 To those who know but little statue-craft..His progress was a marvel.

statue-lantern n. rare

ΚΠ

1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia xiii. 117 From this [court] one passes through others,..each forested with high toro or statue-lanterns.

statue portrait n.

ΚΠ

1838 F. Trollope Vienna & Austrians I. ix. 92 Twenty-three small bronze statue portraits of saints and saintesses.

1872 B. V. Head Sel. Greek Coins Brit. Mus. 18 Thistetradrachm..may give us the traits of the statue-portrait by Lysippos, or the gem-portrait by Pyrgoteles.

2003 J. G. Taylor Indonesia iv. 94 The statue portraits of Java's kings.

b. Objective.

† statue-hewing n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1850 C. Brontë in E. Brontë Wuthering Heights Pref. p. xxiv It sets to work on statue-hewing, and you have a Pluto or a Jove.

statue maker n.

ΚΠ

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ii. 58 The names of these statue-makers, Augustine saith, were Cephisodotus, Strongilio, and Olimpiosthines.

1739 J. Oldmixon Hist. Eng.: Queen Mary I 237 The Carvers, and the Statue-Makers, had their Hands full of Work.

1900 Papers & Proc. Amer. Libr. Assoc. 179/1 The little shop of a statue-maker opened from the street.

2008 Asian Ethnol. 67 227 He is the child of a family of statue makers.

† statue-turning adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 287 The statue turning machine of Mr. Watt.

1840 H. Howe Mem. Eminent Amer. Mech. 457 (heading) Watt's statue-turning machinery.

c. Instrumental, as statue-bordered, statue-filled, statue-lined, etc.

ΚΠ

1613 E. Cary Trag. Mariam iv. i. sig. E4^v I haue seene the statue filled place.

1835 T. N. Talfourd Ion iv. iii These statue-border'd walks.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 113/2 The statue-peopled roof of the Duomo.

1905 Academy 4 Feb. 109/1 These twilight, statue-lined corridors.

1919 R. Hughes Cup of Fury vii. 136 The big statue-crowned circle in front of Mrs. Prothero's home.

1995 Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 21 May (Travel section) 1 (caption) The Vatican..with its colonnades and statue-bordered dome of St. Peter's Basilica.

d. Similative, as statue-blind, statue-still adjs.

ΚΠ

1844 E. B. Browning Vision of Poets xxxvi And Shelley, in his white ideal, All statue-blind.

1858 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 376 She stood one moment statue-still.

a1894 C. Rossetti New Poems (1896) 351 They all were statue-cold.

1950 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 13 Mar. 16/2 Her eyes went up till the irises were hidden by the upper lids and she looked statue-blind in torment.

2011 E. Morgenstern Night Circus 240 A raised platform with a statue-still occupant.

C2.

statue dress n. now rare a type of one-piece dress covering the body and legs; (Theatre) a costume intended to make the wearer resemble a statue.

ΚΠ

1820 A. Opie Tales of Heart III. 235 She returned attired in a splendid mantle, which seemed in modesty thrown over her statue dress.

1894 Blackburn Standard 31 Mar. 3/1 The statue dress of pure white.

1906 Cent. Dict. & Cycl. VII. 5914/3 Statue-dress, a dress for the body and legs, made in one piece, worn in representations of statuary.

1942 W. Empson Royal Beasts (1986) 192 He would then have to change into the statue dress (which might simply be pulled over the top).

statue marble n. = statuary marble at statuary adj. 3.

ΚΠ

1761 J. Mordant Compl. Steward II. 45 Statue marble slab, in chimney pieces.

1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 170 Frozen under enormous pressure,..it..resembles..freshly broken statue-marble.

2001 J. Rohleder in F. W. Tegethoff et al. Calcium Carbonate 116/1 Statue marble was rare and large blocks hard to find.

statue worshipper n. (a) a person who worships statues or images; an idolater; (b) derogatory a Roman Catholic.

ΚΠ

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 473 The Image and Statue-worshippers among the Pagans.

1883 W. W. Thomas tr. V. Rydberg Last Athenian xi. 188 What have you to do with either statue-worshippers or Christians?

1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 No. 42. 34 The Catholic is identified..by single responses [to a survey] of statue-lover, statue-worshipper, [etc.].

2004 J. Schrantz Reverend's Revenge xii. 125 No daughter of mine is going to attend church with those statue worshipers.

2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. (Travel section) 26 This was where the new religion that took over from the statue-worshippers—the Birdman cult—had its ceremonial centre.

Derivatives

ˈstatueless adj. having no statue; devoid of statues.

ΚΠ

1833 New Monthly Mag. Mar. 496 (heading) Epigram on the statueless column.

1860 W. M. Thackeray in Cornhill Mag. Nov. 625 In the spirit I am walking..round the Place Vendôme, where the drapeau blanc is floating from the statueless column.

2001 Daily Tel. 23 Mar. 21/4 Afghanistan's ruling Taliban allowed foreign journalists to visit the statueless Kabul museum yesterday for the first time since the demolition of its ‘false idols’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

statuev.²

Brit.

/ˈstatʃuː/,

/ˈstatjuː/, U.S.

/ˈstætʃu/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: statue n.

Etymology: < statue n.

Now rare.

1. transitive. To represent in a statue or in statuary; spec. to honour (a person) by erecting a statue of him or her. Chiefly in passive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > give honour to [verb (transitive)] > by statue

statue1611

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [verb (transitive)] > represent in statue

statue1611

statufy1903

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Statuare, to statue, to image.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xv. sig. K5^v He did not feare to lose his head,..for if he did, the Athenians would giue him one immortall. He should be Statued, in the treasury of eternall fame.

a1634 J. Day Parl. Bees (Lansd. 725) f. 29^v At the fowre corners of this chariot Ile have the 4 windes statued.

1672 J. Eachard Mr. Hobbs's State Nature Considered 64 It is great pity but that you should be entomb'd at Westminster, and statued up at Gresham Colledge for the great moral discoverer of the Age.

1776 M. Robinson-Morris Further Exam. Present Amer. Meas. 217 Some men might perhaps be then celebrated, painted and statued for the fathers and the founders of American Commonwealths.

1859 T. Campbell in tr. Petrarch Sonnets Triumphs & Other Poems p. cx Enrico Capri..cherished a passionate admiration for..Petrarch, whose likeness was pictured or statued in every room of his house.

1895 W. Wright Palmyra & Zenobia x. 107 Another citizen erected seven columns..and he was ‘statued’ in March 179 a.d.

1910 Public 12 Aug. 747/2 If he were known, he might be ‘statued’ like that bronze policeman which no longer disfigures the Haymarket.

1989 F. Bonneure Art Guide Bruges 39 A series of influential Brugean citizens have been 'statued' in the façades of the building.

2. transitive. To turn (a living being) into a statue. Frequently figurative: to cause to become motionless or silent. Chiefly in passive. Now rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [verb (transitive)] > turn into a statue

trophy1601

statue1628

statufy1868

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxvi. sig. O8 The eye is dimme, in the discoloured face; and the whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.

1658 G. Swinhoe Trag. Unhappy Fair Irene 7 Hath the impression of her purer spirit statu'd the Fates?

1782 T. Stratford 1st Bk. Fontenoy 39 The blood-nectar'd flock Of ravens, hoarse for carrion of the field, Stand, statu'd into wonder.

1798 L. Booker Malvern i. 24 Wenlock, dastard lord! Statued with fear inglorious, fail'd to urge His band to half-won Conquest.

1864 J. Savage Faith & Fancy 64 Must I, too, be statued here with thy cold eloquence?

1941 A. H. Rutledge Home by River x. 155 Moonrise..is the witching hour, when..every object..is wrought to virginal marble by an all-forgiving wand, is statued in lily-white stone.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	statue
释义	statuen. Brit. /ˈstatʃuː/, /ˈstatjuː/, U.S. /ˈstætʃu/ Forms: Middle English– statue, 1500s statu, 1500s statuies (plural); Scottish pre-1700 statew, pre-1700 statu, pre-1700 statuaes (plural), pre-1700 statw, pre-1700 1700s– statue. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French statue. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French statue (12th cent. in Old French; French statue ) < classical Latin statua < statuere statute v. Compare Spanish estatua (14th cent.), Portuguese estatua (14th cent.), Italian statua (late 13th cent.). Compare statua n., stature n. 3, statute n.² 1. a. A representation in the round of a person, animal, etc., which is sculptured, moulded, or cast in marble, metal, plaster, or a similar material; esp. such a representation of a god, allegorical figure, or eminent person, usually life-size or larger.portrait, snow statue, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue likenessOE imagec1225 figurea1300 signa1382 statuea1393 staturea1393 statutea1393 statutec1430 statuac1450 picture1517 idol1548 portraiture1548 pattern1582 portrait1585 icon1587 monument1594 simulacrum1599 statuary1599 plastic1686 make1890 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 891 (MED) The world..stant divided..Lich to the feet..of the Statue. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 995 For his make [sc. Lot's wife] watz myst, þat on þe mount lenged In a stonen statue þat salt savor habbes. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 111 And that they myght no more lifte theyr swerdes than myght statues or ymages. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 283 In buying statuies [sic] or standing images, they spend their substance. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles v. 14 And to remember what he does, Build his Statue to make him glorious. 1634 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xii. 110 Besides, Rounds (so Painters call Statues and their fragments) may be had, when the life cannot. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 132 The statue seem'd to breathe, And soften into flesh, beneath the touch Of forming art. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 231 The drapery of this statue is much admired. 1833 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Wales I. at Eglwys-Newydd The hall is paved with Mona marble, and is embellished with a Grecian statue of Bacchus. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 571 For the execution of a marble statue the sculptor first models a preliminary sketch on a small scale in clay or wax. 1946 Times 16 Aug. 5/6 France, to whose honour Mestrovich once raised a statue in Belgrade. 1990 Gourmet Nov. 202/1 A statue of Nelson that antedates its London counterpart. 2010 New Yorker 16 Aug. 40/3 Outside the church, there is a statue of a boar. b. figurative and in similative use, esp. with reference to being motionless or silent. ΚΠ 1579 T. Churchyard Gen. Rehearsall Warres sig. Dd.iij^v A Figge for those, that stands like statues still, And stares in face, to feede thei knowe not what. 1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow sig. K3^v Philamour standing like a statue of stone, as if lately transformed with Medusa. 1606 M. Sutcliffe Subversion Robert Parsons xii. 98 Ordination of Ministers belongeth to true Bishops, & not to blockish statues, called Popes. 1637 J. Milton Comus 23 If I but wave this wand, Your nervs are all chain'd up in alabaster [printed alablaster], And you a statue. 1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 154 Shee..guilty of the Bill, Stood as a Statue, silent, husht and still. 1702 Good Advice to Ladies 4 Just like a Statue stands the patient Wife, And dare not speak one word to save her Life. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams II. v. 67 He looked the statue of despair. 1823 Ld. Byron Island iii. iv. 51 Still as a statue..He stood. 1883 Harper's Mag. July 204/1 His temple encountered a cold pistol, and a policeman immovable as a statue. 1914 tr. G. Leroux Secret of Night ix. 209 She was the statue of hate and vengeance. 1994 D. Gilb Last Known Resid. of Mickey Acuña ii. 33 Charles Towne had completely stopped whatever else it was he was doing—he was a statue of attention. †2. More generally: an effigy; an image, a portrait. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation ylikenesseOE likenessOE anlikenessOE ylikeOE imagec1300 acornc1388 portraiturea1393 resemblancea1393 semblanta1400 counterfeitc1400 shapec1400 statuec1405 representation1477 presentationa1513 presentment1535 effigy1539 porture1542 express1553 effigium1564 representance1565 designment1570 icon1572 mimesisa1586 effigies1615 expressurea1616 represent1615 signature1618 proportion1678 representative1766 rendering1825 buggerlugs1839 effigiation1876 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 117 The rede statue of Mars with spere and targe So shyneth in his white Baner large. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xi. 112 To..birn ȝon Troians statw in flamb funerall. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Div^v And Troian statue throwe into the flame. 1615 E. Howes Stow's Annales (new ed.) 815 And when they beheld her [sc. Queen Elizabeth's] statue or picture lying vppon the coffin..hauing a Crowne vppon the head thereof, and a ball and scepter in either hand: there was such a generall..weeping, as the like hath not beene seene. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) v. iii. 79 SJ [sc. Sir John]. Your Neeces..crave humbly Though absent in their bodys, they may take leave Of their late suitors statues. Luke. There they hang. 3. Usually in plural. Any of various children's games in which players must stand still in different postures. Also more fully game of statues, statue game, statues game. Cf. musical statues n. at musical adj. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1839 tr. J.-P. Brès Social Amusem. iv. 121 The young people sometimes played this game of statues with the addition of music. 1871 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 678/2 There is the ‘Game of Statues’. 1915 Primary Educ. Jan. 48/2 A good way to quiet children when they become restless is to play the ‘statue game’. 1935 E. Farjeon Nursery in Nineties v. 240 She quickly suggests a game, Magical Music, or Forfeits, or Statues. She..thumps the only tune to which Statues can be played. 1973 S. Kydd For you War is Over xi. 294 Several dead soldiers..were frozen into grotesque positions like some macabre 'Statues' game. 1986 T. C. Leonard Power of Press vii. 207 Officeholders..usually appear to be fleeing the camera or caught at playing a children's game of Statue. 2004 K. MacAlister Corset Diaries 76 No one moved a muscle; it was like they were all playing a game of statues. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. † statue-craft n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1634 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xii. 110 Such as are well seene in statue-craft. 1881 T. Woolner Pygmalion x. 152 To those who know but little statue-craft..His progress was a marvel. statue-lantern n. rare ΚΠ 1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia xiii. 117 From this [court] one passes through others,..each forested with high toro or statue-lanterns. statue portrait n. ΚΠ 1838 F. Trollope Vienna & Austrians I. ix. 92 Twenty-three small bronze statue portraits of saints and saintesses. 1872 B. V. Head Sel. Greek Coins Brit. Mus. 18 Thistetradrachm..may give us the traits of the statue-portrait by Lysippos, or the gem-portrait by Pyrgoteles. 2003 J. G. Taylor Indonesia iv. 94 The statue portraits of Java's kings. b. Objective. † statue-hewing n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1850 C. Brontë in E. Brontë Wuthering Heights Pref. p. xxiv It sets to work on statue-hewing, and you have a Pluto or a Jove. statue maker n. ΚΠ 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ii. 58 The names of these statue-makers, Augustine saith, were Cephisodotus, Strongilio, and Olimpiosthines. 1739 J. Oldmixon Hist. Eng.: Queen Mary I 237 The Carvers, and the Statue-Makers, had their Hands full of Work. 1900 Papers & Proc. Amer. Libr. Assoc. 179/1 The little shop of a statue-maker opened from the street. 2008 Asian Ethnol. 67 227 He is the child of a family of statue makers. † statue-turning adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 287 The statue turning machine of Mr. Watt. 1840 H. Howe Mem. Eminent Amer. Mech. 457 (heading) Watt's statue-turning machinery. c. Instrumental, as statue-bordered, statue-filled, statue-lined, etc. ΚΠ 1613 E. Cary Trag. Mariam iv. i. sig. E4^v I haue seene the statue filled place. 1835 T. N. Talfourd Ion iv. iii These statue-border'd walks. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 113/2 The statue-peopled roof of the Duomo. 1905 Academy 4 Feb. 109/1 These twilight, statue-lined corridors. 1919 R. Hughes Cup of Fury vii. 136 The big statue-crowned circle in front of Mrs. Prothero's home. 1995 Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 21 May (Travel section) 1 (caption) The Vatican..with its colonnades and statue-bordered dome of St. Peter's Basilica. d. Similative, as statue-blind, statue-still adjs. ΚΠ 1844 E. B. Browning Vision of Poets xxxvi And Shelley, in his white ideal, All statue-blind. 1858 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 376 She stood one moment statue-still. a1894 C. Rossetti New Poems (1896) 351 They all were statue-cold. 1950 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 13 Mar. 16/2 Her eyes went up till the irises were hidden by the upper lids and she looked statue-blind in torment. 2011 E. Morgenstern Night Circus 240 A raised platform with a statue-still occupant. C2. statue dress n. now rare a type of one-piece dress covering the body and legs; (Theatre) a costume intended to make the wearer resemble a statue. ΚΠ 1820 A. Opie Tales of Heart III. 235 She returned attired in a splendid mantle, which seemed in modesty thrown over her statue dress. 1894 Blackburn Standard 31 Mar. 3/1 The statue dress of pure white. 1906 Cent. Dict. & Cycl. VII. 5914/3 Statue-dress, a dress for the body and legs, made in one piece, worn in representations of statuary. 1942 W. Empson Royal Beasts (1986) 192 He would then have to change into the statue dress (which might simply be pulled over the top). statue marble n. = statuary marble at statuary adj. 3. ΚΠ 1761 J. Mordant Compl. Steward II. 45 Statue marble slab, in chimney pieces. 1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 170 Frozen under enormous pressure,..it..resembles..freshly broken statue-marble. 2001 J. Rohleder in F. W. Tegethoff et al. Calcium Carbonate 116/1 Statue marble was rare and large blocks hard to find. statue worshipper n. (a) a person who worships statues or images; an idolater; (b) derogatory a Roman Catholic. ΚΠ 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 473 The Image and Statue-worshippers among the Pagans. 1883 W. W. Thomas tr. V. Rydberg Last Athenian xi. 188 What have you to do with either statue-worshippers or Christians? 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 No. 42. 34 The Catholic is identified..by single responses [to a survey] of statue-lover, statue-worshipper, [etc.]. 2004 J. Schrantz Reverend's Revenge xii. 125 No daughter of mine is going to attend church with those statue worshipers. 2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. (Travel section) 26 This was where the new religion that took over from the statue-worshippers—the Birdman cult—had its ceremonial centre. Derivatives ˈstatueless adj. having no statue; devoid of statues. ΚΠ 1833 New Monthly Mag. Mar. 496 (heading) Epigram on the statueless column. 1860 W. M. Thackeray in Cornhill Mag. Nov. 625 In the spirit I am walking..round the Place Vendôme, where the drapeau blanc is floating from the statueless column. 2001 Daily Tel. 23 Mar. 21/4 Afghanistan's ruling Taliban allowed foreign journalists to visit the statueless Kabul museum yesterday for the first time since the demolition of its ‘false idols’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † statuev.¹ Forms: Middle English statue, Middle English statute (past participle). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin statuere. Etymology: < classical Latin statuere to set up (see statute v.). Obsolete. transitive. To set up, put in place. ΚΠ c1475 (?c1400) [implied in: Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 56 (MED) Prelats wiþ þer stafis and oþer ornaments are statuit ymagis, ful of kaff, wiþ a bow to sley þe fowlis. (at statued adj.¹)]. a1500 Let. Alexander l. 64 in Mediaeval Stud. (1979) 41 119 Bathis wern with gridirns of holl gold statued and ordeigned of vnnumerable tresour. a1500 Let. Alexander l. 571 in Mediaeval Stud. (1979) 41 145 (MED) Ther also my golden ballis biyonde theym of v feete to be statute and ordeigned I have comaunded. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). statuev.² Brit. /ˈstatʃuː/, /ˈstatjuː/, U.S. /ˈstætʃu/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: statue n. Etymology: < statue n. Now rare. 1. transitive. To represent in a statue or in statuary; spec. to honour (a person) by erecting a statue of him or her. Chiefly in passive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > give honour to [verb (transitive)] > by statue statue1611 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [verb (transitive)] > represent in statue statue1611 statufy1903 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Statuare, to statue, to image. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xv. sig. K5^v He did not feare to lose his head,..for if he did, the Athenians would giue him one immortall. He should be Statued, in the treasury of eternall fame. a1634 J. Day Parl. Bees (Lansd. 725) f. 29^v At the fowre corners of this chariot Ile have the 4 windes statued. 1672 J. Eachard Mr. Hobbs's State Nature Considered 64 It is great pity but that you should be entomb'd at Westminster, and statued up at Gresham Colledge for the great moral discoverer of the Age. 1776 M. Robinson-Morris Further Exam. Present Amer. Meas. 217 Some men might perhaps be then celebrated, painted and statued for the fathers and the founders of American Commonwealths. 1859 T. Campbell in tr. Petrarch Sonnets Triumphs & Other Poems p. cx Enrico Capri..cherished a passionate admiration for..Petrarch, whose likeness was pictured or statued in every room of his house. 1895 W. Wright Palmyra & Zenobia x. 107 Another citizen erected seven columns..and he was ‘statued’ in March 179 a.d. 1910 Public 12 Aug. 747/2 If he were known, he might be ‘statued’ like that bronze policeman which no longer disfigures the Haymarket. 1989 F. Bonneure Art Guide Bruges 39 A series of influential Brugean citizens have been 'statued' in the façades of the building. 2. transitive. To turn (a living being) into a statue. Frequently figurative: to cause to become motionless or silent. Chiefly in passive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [verb (transitive)] > turn into a statue trophy1601 statue1628 statufy1868 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxvi. sig. O8 The eye is dimme, in the discoloured face; and the whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth. 1658 G. Swinhoe Trag. Unhappy Fair Irene 7 Hath the impression of her purer spirit statu'd the Fates? 1782 T. Stratford 1st Bk. Fontenoy 39 The blood-nectar'd flock Of ravens, hoarse for carrion of the field, Stand, statu'd into wonder. 1798 L. Booker Malvern i. 24 Wenlock, dastard lord! Statued with fear inglorious, fail'd to urge His band to half-won Conquest. 1864 J. Savage Faith & Fancy 64 Must I, too, be statued here with thy cold eloquence? 1941 A. H. Rutledge Home by River x. 155 Moonrise..is the witching hour, when..every object..is wrought to virginal marble by an all-forgiving wand, is statued in lily-white stone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1393v.¹c1475v.²1611
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