Definitions

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  • noun obsolete A statue.

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  • noun obsolete A statue.

Etymologies

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Latin

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Examples

  • [Footnote: Campanella held its purpose to be the contemplation of the wisdom of God; cp., for instance, De sensu rerum, Bk.iv. epilogus, where the world is described as statua Dei altissimi (p. 370; ed.

    The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

  • Or if they keep their wits, yet they are esteemed scrubs and fools by reason of their carriage: after seven years 'study — — — statua, taciturnius exit,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Venus statua, which was thereby made in brass; after he had sufficiently played, and now made an end of his sport, he came to fetch his ring, but Venus had bowed her finger in, and he could not get it off.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Libris et curis statua taciturnius exit, Plerunque et risu populum quatit, Hor. ep.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hereof the house of Mausolus was built, thus old Jupiter stood in the Capitol, and the statua of Hercules, made in the reign of

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • For there are certain tempers of body which, matched with a humorous depravity of mind, do hath and produce vitiosities, whose newness and monstrosity of nature admits no name; this was the temper of that lecher that carnaled with a statua, and the constitution of Nero in his spintrian recreations.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • Apud antiquos amor Lethes olim fuit, is ardentes faeces in profluentum inclinabat; hujus statua Veneris Eleusinae templo visebatur, quo amantes confluebant, qui amicae memoriam deponere volebant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statua, or picture, than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

    The Essays 2007

  • Sat 08/26/06 6:53 AM dfg34hdb produzione statua bronzo perseo tecnologia per taglio carne samsung fax cartuccia

    BREAKING: Grinch kills a Rockette? | EW.com 2006

  • Ad aliud latus ostij versus viros est alia statua cum vbere equæ pro viris qui mungunt equas.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

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