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▪ I. stature, n.|ˈstætjʊə(r)|
Forms: 3–6 statur, 5 statour(e, 6 statyre, 4– stature.
[a. OF. stature, estature (mod.F. stature) ad. L. statūra f. sta-, stāre to stand: see -ture. Cf. It. statura, Sp., Pg. estatura.]
1. The height of an animal body in its normal standing position.
a. esp. of a human body.
a1300Cursor M. 22321 [Þis king Constans was] a mikel man, o statur hei. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 73 God..man last made Til hys lyknes and semely stature. 1382Wyclif Matt. vi. 27 Sothely who of ȝou thenkinge may putte to to his stature oo cubite? a1400–50Wars Alex. 1702 Darius..Askis þam of sir Alexander all at he cuthe, Bathe of his statoure & his strenth. c1440Alphabet of Tales ccclxxii. 256 He was so febull & of so little a statur. 1551T. Wilson Logic C j b, Stature or brodenes cannot be taken from man. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iv. iv. 163 Sil. How tall was she? Jul. About my stature. 1597― 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 277 Care I for the Limbe, the Thewes, the stature, bulke, and bigge assemblance of a man? giue me the spirit. 1625N. Carpenter Geogr. Del. ii. xiv. (1635) 224 Hippocrates pronounced the people of the North to be..of a small and dwarfish stature. 1710Steele Tatler No. 75 ⁋5 He was low of Stature... But he was more prudent than Men of that Height usually are. 1726Pope Odyss. xviii. 258 Thy riper days no growing worth impart, A man in stature, still a boy in heart! 1839F. A. Kemble Resid. Georgia (1863) 38 Her stature..must have been..five feet seven or eight. 1847Tennyson Princess Prol. 40 Her stature more than mortal in the burst Of sunrise. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 104 A remarkable-looking man,..of middle stature.
†b. of a beast or a fish. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. A. III. 117 The ferste..is cleped Aries, Which lich a wether of stature Resembled is in his figure. a1505in Kingsford Chron. Lond. (1905) 255 The later ende of ffebruary was taken..a ffishe of greate statur. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ix. 341 It is..shaped like a ramme, and of the stature of an asse. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 216 These [monkeys]..are all small in stature.
c. transf. esp. of a tree.
1633T. Johnson Gerarde's Herbal ii. clxxxiii. §8. 593 This [Dwarfe Mountaine Pinke] for his stature may iustly take the next place. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 26 In transplanting..be very sparing of the Roots, that is, for such Trees as are of Stature. 1742Shenstone Schoolmistress xviii, Their books, of stature small, they take in hand. a1767M. Bruce Lochleven 79 Poems (1706) 73 The stately ash Rear'd high his nervous stature. 1796C. Marshall Gardening Contents note, Those trees, shrubs, and flowers..must be looked for in this Section; where is mentioned their stature,..nature, and propagation. 1830J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 89 The lives and stature of trees, like those of animals, must vary with the situations in which they are placed. 1898‘Merriman’ Roden's Corner vi. 61 There are quiet nooks..where the trees have grown to a quite respectable stature.
d. put for: Standard of height.
1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xvii. (1787) II. 48 Yet, although the stature was lowered,..the insurmountable difficulty of procuring a regular..supply of volunteers, obliged the emperors to adopt..more effectual and coercive methods.
e. fig.
1834Newman Par. Serm. I. xii. 186 Not making matters worse than they are, or showing our whole Christian stature..when we need but put out a hand..or give a glance. 1850S. Dobell Roman vii. Poet. Wks. 1875 I. 117 You do mistake The stature of your courtesy for that Of my desert. 1857H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets iv. 125 The language had gradually reached its full stature. 1868E. Edwards Ralegh I. xxiii. 530 A leading mark of Ralegh's mental stature. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. (1896) II. xvi. 323 The men are of meaner moral stature.
†2. Bodily form, build. Obs.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2446 And lyk his fadyr of face & of stature And fals of loue. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 469 Þe stature of þe body of mankynde is made of þe elementes i-medled to-gidres. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 3 And aboue y⊇ myddle he was the moost amiable stature of a man. 1626T. H. tr. Caussin's Holy Court 45 Nicephorus relateth certaine lineaments of his [the Saviour's] stature, colour and proportion of his members, which he drew out of antiquity.
†3. An effigy, statue. Obs. [So F. stature in 15th c.]
1390Gower Conf. III. 52 And while he slepte..Him thoghte he syh a stature evene. c1400Destr. Troy 11654 Lelly, the lett, þat vs long taries, Is a statur full strong of a stith god [sc. the Palladium]. Ibid. 11698. 1513 Douglas æneis vi. xv. 3 The peple of vdyr realmis..Bene moyr expert..To forge and carve lyflyk staturis of bras. Ibid. vii. iv. 31 And Janus statur eik with double face. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus K iij, Parrhasius painted an erected statyre, and on the top thereof a Partridge, so liuely, that [etc.]. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. iii. 33 The stature of a woman cloathed after the Grecian fashion. Ibid. ii. xiv. 49 b, The stature of a dragon of the length of 120. foote. 1592R. Johnson Nine Worthies C 2, [Fame] vowed to erect his stature where..it should stande immoveable. 1596Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxxiii. (1612) 301 The statures huge, of Porphyrie and costlier matters made. 1653tr. Carmeni's Nissena 142 An alter was raised trampled on by a stature of Pallace.
†4. State, condition. Obs.
a1500Chester Plays i. 86, I haue forbyd that yow ne sholde, but kepe yow well in this stature, the same Covenant, I charge yow, hold. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xiv. 41 Sic vant of wostouris with hairtis in sinfull staturis..Within this land was nevir hard nor sene.
5. The posture of standing. In quot. fig. rare.
1742Young Nt. Th. vii. 1441 And what is reason?.. Reason is upright stature in the soul.
▪ II. stature, v. rare exc. in pa. pple.|ˈstætjʊə(r)|
[f. stature n.]
trans. To give stature to. (Some of the examples quoted may belong to statured a.)
c1440Pallad. on Husb. xiii. 24 Ypomelides Beth appultreen,..A commyn tre statured dout[e]lees, With whitly flour coloured. 1609Heywood Brit. Troy xi. xvi, Their growth is strange, whom I compare aright, Vnto the Mush⁓roome, statur'd in a night. 1635Quarles Embl. ii. vi, Were thy dimension but a stride, Nay, wert thou statur'd but a span. 1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 260 But if they will appeare alike statured, the taller is to stoope, and depresse himselfe. a1661Fuller Worthies, Essex (1662) 334, I match him [Tusser] with Thomas Church-yard, they being mark'd alike in their Poeticall parts, living in the same time, and statur'd alike in their Estates, both low enough I assure you. 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 277 Old Master, reverence thine own beard That..seems Wellnigh as long as thou art statured tall! |