statuary

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Latin statuāria (ars) ((art) of sculpture), feminine of the adjective statuārius (of statues).[1]

Noun

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statuary (uncountable)

  1. The craft of making statues.
  2. Statues considered collectively.
    • 2012, Ruth Ramsden, chapter 9, in Blue Murder at the Pink Parrot, London: Cutting Edge Press, →ISBN, page 137:
      Simply on aesthetic grounds I can almost applaud the Victorians’ fig obsessed Bowdlerisation of Greek and Roman statuary.
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Etymology 2

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From Latin statuārius (maker of statues).[1]

Noun

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statuary (plural statuaries)

  1. A person who makes or deals in statues.
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Etymology 3

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From the noun or the Latin adjective statuārius (of statues).[1]

Adjective

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statuary (comparative more statuary, superlative most statuary)

  1. 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

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “statuary (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.