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单词 statufy
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statufyv.

Brit. /ˈstatʃuːfʌɪ/, /ˈstatjuːfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈstætʃuˌfaɪ/
Forms: 1800s– statuefy, 1800s– statufy.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: statue n., -fy suffix.
Etymology: < statue n. + -fy suffix. Compare French statufier to represent in a statue (1881). Compare earlier statue v.2, statuize v.
1. transitive. To represent in a statue; = statue v.2 1.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > record by monument [verb (transitive)] > commemorate by statue
statuize1719
statufy1903
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [verb (transitive)] > represent in statue
statue1611
statufy1903
1838 [see statufied adj. at Derivatives].
1859 Punch 10 Dec. 233/2 Let us statuefy the patriot, if we can't ennoble him.
1875 Spectator 24 July 945/2 If he [sc. Byron] must be statuefied, let him stand, the modern Pan, among the trees of Hyde Park.
1903 Pilot 17 Oct. 372/2 The occasion was the erection of a statue to Vercingetorix—statufied everywhere except his native district.
2004 M. D. Garval Dream of Stone iii. 149/1 The first of these images..short-circuits her [sc. George Sand's] access to lasting fame by statufying her too soon.
2. transitive. To turn (a living being) into a statue; = statue v.2 2. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [verb (transitive)] > turn into a statue
trophy1601
statue1628
statufy1868
1868 A. Helps Realmah viii, in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 393/1 There were 27 degrees of frost that day. As we sat on our horses..we were nearly statuefied.
1920 R. Hughes What's World coming To? iv. 256 Bob and Joe had been statufied with amazement at Zeb's unparalleled assault.
2006 J. S. Williams Jean Cocteau iii. 66 The evil sisters..receive no final punishment of the kind meted out in de Beaumont's tale where they were statufied alive.

Derivatives

ˈstatufied adj.
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1838 Q. Rev. Jan. 12 The selection of the statuefied persons seems strange.
1906 Sat. Evening Post 20 Oct. 15/2 He pointed to the luggage and the statuefied messengers.
1998 S. Resnik in J. H. Berke et al. Even Paranoids have Enemies i. 27 She remained immobile in her statufied state.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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