Middle English Dictionary Entry
statūe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | statūe n. Also statua. |
| Etymology | OF estatüe, statüe & L statua. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A piece of statuary, an effigy; (b) a pictorial representation made by painting, weaving, or embroidering fabric.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3349 : This proude kyng leet make a statue of gold..To which ymage bothe yonge and old Comanded he to loute.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2079 : This goddesse on an hert ful hye seet..In gaude grene hir statue clothed was.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.891 : The world..stant divided..Lich to the feet..of the Statue.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)995 : His [Lot's] make watz myst, þat on þe mount lenged In a stonen statue þat salt savor habbes.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.6932 : An evele chaunce Come þeis false goddes..And her statues of stokkes & of stoon.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)536 : Edippus..gan ryde To a temple..Of Appollo..Whos statue stood in a char of golde.
- (c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)19/12 : Victorine, a worthi man, a grete rethorician, a famous philisophr..for grete sciens had a statua rered to his liknesse in þe markette at Rome.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)9115 : Folkys..Sholde..haue hym in despyt..ffor but a lyknesse off ordure, And a statue [F estatue] off slyym vnclene.
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)4.31.75b : This statua, or this ymage, signyfied this same kyng Nabugodonosor..this word 'statua,' which we transumen in to englysch, þat is to mene an 'ymage,' it comyth of this word 'statuo.'
b
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.975 : The rede statue of Mars with spere and targe So shyneth in his white baner large That alle the feeldes gliteren vp and doun.