单词 | statufy |
释义 | statufyv. 1. transitive. To represent in a statue; = statue v.2 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > record by monument [verb (transitive)] > commemorate by statue statuize1719 statufy1903 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [verb (transitive)] > represent in statue statue1611 statufy1903 1838 [see statufied adj. at Derivatives]. 1859 Punch 10 Dec. 233/2 Let us statuefy the patriot, if we can't ennoble him. 1875 Spectator 24 July 945/2 If he [sc. Byron] must be statuefied, let him stand, the modern Pan, among the trees of Hyde Park. 1903 Pilot 17 Oct. 372/2 The occasion was the erection of a statue to Vercingetorix—statufied everywhere except his native district. 2004 M. D. Garval Dream of Stone iii. 149/1 The first of these images..short-circuits her [sc. George Sand's] access to lasting fame by statufying her too soon. 2. transitive. To turn (a living being) into a statue; = statue v.2 2. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [verb (transitive)] > turn into a statue trophy1601 statue1628 statufy1868 1868 A. Helps Realmah viii, in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 393/1 There were 27 degrees of frost that day. As we sat on our horses..we were nearly statuefied. 1920 R. Hughes What's World coming To? iv. 256 Bob and Joe had been statufied with amazement at Zeb's unparalleled assault. 2006 J. S. Williams Jean Cocteau iii. 66 The evil sisters..receive no final punishment of the kind meted out in de Beaumont's tale where they were statufied alive. Derivatives ˈstatufied adj. ΚΠ 1838 Q. Rev. Jan. 12 The selection of the statuefied persons seems strange. 1906 Sat. Evening Post 20 Oct. 15/2 He pointed to the luggage and the statuefied messengers. 1998 S. Resnik in J. H. Berke et al. Even Paranoids have Enemies i. 27 She remained immobile in her statufied state. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1838 |
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