statuminate

English

Etymology

From Latin statuminatus, past participle of statuminare (“to prop”), from statumen (“a prop”), from statuere (“to place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stəˈtjuːmɪneɪt/, /stəˈtuːmɪneɪt/

Verb

statuminate (third-person singular simple present statuminates, present participle statuminating, simple past and past participle statuminated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To prop or support.
   • 1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The New Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     I will statuminate and under-prop thee

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “statuminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)