Statuary
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The craft of making statues. uncountable
- 2 A person who makes or deals in statues.
- 3 statues collectively wordnet
- 4 Statues considered collectively. uncountable
"Simply on aesthetic grounds I can almost applaud the Victorians’ fig obsessed Bowdlerisation of Greek and Roman statuary."
- 1 Of, relating to, or characteristic of statues.
"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: […]"
- 1 of or relating to or suitable for statues wordnet
Example
More examples"Simply on aesthetic grounds I can almost applaud the Victorians’ fig obsessed Bowdlerisation of Greek and Roman statuary."
Etymology
From Latin statuāria (ars) (“(art) of sculpture”), feminine of the adjective statuārius (“of statues”).
From Latin statuārius (“maker of statues”).
From the noun or the Latin adjective statuārius (“of statues”).
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