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Statu, Stat(e)w, n. Also: statue. Pl. also statuaes. [ME and e.m.E. statue (14th c.), pl. also statuies (1576), statue (1120 in Larousse), L. statua.] A statue, a representation in the round of a person or animal, in stone, wood, etc. b. transf. A representation in some other form.Freq. in Doug., usu. without a direct equivalent in the Latin. c1420 Wynt. v 190.
Evryilkane, … hale in to that land wes nane Tempill standand … Na off nane ydole a statu [: walu] [c. statu, W. figoure, AE2 stature]
1513 Doug. Comm. i iii 54.
The thre granyt ceptour, quhilk his statw in ald days bair in hand
1513 Doug. ii iii 80.
Calcas commandis beld this statw [Ruddim. statew; L. effigiem] of tre Thus large and gret
1513 Doug. ii v 20.
From that boys statw [translating L. equus] thar, Discending thai downlat by cordis
1513 Doug. vi vii 97.
Moving na mair hir curage, face nor bre Than scho had bene a statu [Sm. statew, Ruddim. statewe] of marbil [L. dura silex]
c1554 Makeson Genesis 4a.
Loth … turnit newir … Bot his evil viffe for inobedience Vas chengit sone in statue of ane stan[e]
c1590 Fowler I 7/1.
Bvilde vp, O England! statuaes, arches bowes, And tombes, and pillers, to his liuing fame
1630-1651 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 33.
Earle William caused a buriall place to be assigned vnto him … with his statue and wieve image armed at all peeces maid of fyne stone
1661 (1703) Dismal Account of the Burning of our Solemn League and Covenant.
On the one side thereof [sc. the arch] was placed a statue in the form of an old hag-mare, having the Covenant in her hands
1685 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 134.
That the Kings majesties statu in metall is raddie to be pute up in the parliament closs
1685 Lauder Notices Affairs II 635.
The late King's statue on horseback was erected and set up in the Parliament Closse … Some compared it to Nebuchadnezar's image
1694 Red Bk. Menteith I 429.
To cause ane … meassone erect tuo statues of fyne hewen ston
b. 1513 Doug. iv xi 112.
To mak end of my [sc. Dido's] dolorus thochtis all, And byrn ȝon Troiane statw [appar. transl. L. capitis] in flamb funeral
1513 Doug. viii xii 61.
The monstruus goddis figuris … And eik the barkand statw, Anubis [L. et latrator Anubis], [sc. as represented on Aeneas' armour]
1513 Doug. x iv 22.
Hys weirlyke schip our the fludis ilkane Of God Appolloys goldyn statw schane [L. et aurato fulgebat Apolline puppis]

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