statuary
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin statuāria (ars) (“(art) of sculpture”), feminine of the adjective statuārius (“of statues”).[1]
Noun edit
statuary (uncountable)
- The craft of making statues.
- Statues considered collectively.
Translations edit
craft of making statues
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statues considered collectively
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Etymology 2 edit
From Latin statuārius (“maker of statues”).[1]
Noun edit
statuary (plural statuaries)
- A person who makes or deals in statues.
Translations edit
person who makes or deals in statues
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Etymology 3 edit
From the noun or the Latin adjective statuārius (“of statues”).[1]
Adjective edit
statuary (comparative more statuary, superlative most statuary)
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of statues.
- 1655, [Hamon L’Estrange], The Reign of King Charles: An History Faithfully and Impartially Delivered and Disposed into Annals, London: […] E. C. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, […], page 64:
- He [Francis Bacon] lyeth interred in the Church of St. Michael at St. Albans in Hartfordſhire, and hath there a fair ſtatuary monument erected for him of white Marble at the coſt of Sir Thomas Meautis, his ancient ſervant, who was not neerer to him living then dead: […]
- 1862, James B[owen] Everhart, “Women”, in Miscellanies, West Chester, Pa.: Edward F. James, page 32:
- There is the lady’s own book, complete without a teacher—showing how the waist should be boddiced; the parasol handled; the statuary attitudes; the Parisian curtsy; the prettiest toss of the head, and swing of the train.
- 2004, Keith A. Livers, “Lev Kassil’: The Soccer Match as Stalinist Ritual”, in Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, page 168:
- Characteristically, the photo series ends with the trainer having successfully contorted the boy’s body into a classical, statuary pose, even as the boy forces a pained smile for the camera.
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “statuary (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.