statue

plural statues

1. A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.

   I will raise her statue in pure gold.

   c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]

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   It’s true, Robert E. Lee was opposed to statues of people like Robert E. Lee! So any city that decides to keep a statue of him should, at the very least, add a speech bubble saying, “You know, I specifically told you all not to do this.”!

   2017 October 8, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO

2. datedA portrait.

   The young lady just then would have formed a graceful model for a statue of Attention

   a. 1876, Philip Massinger, Mart and Mansion

present singular third person statues · participle present statuing · participle past statued · past statued

1. transitiveTo form a statue of; to make into a statue.

   The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.

   1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political