Statuelike
(Stat"ue*like`) a. Like a statue; motionless.
Statuesque
(Stat`u*esque") a. Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the
symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.
Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this respect, that they have no background.
Hare. Statuesquely
(Stat`u*esque"ly), adv. In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a
statue.
A character statuesquely simple in its details.
Lowell. Statuette
(Stat`u*ette") n. [F., cf. It. statuetta.] A small statue; — usually applied to a figure much less
than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble
or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.
Statuminate
(Sta*tu"mi*nate) v. t. [L. statuminatus, p. p. of statuminare to prop, fr. statumen a prop,
fr. statuere to place.] To prop or support. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Stature
(Stat"ure) n. [F. stature, OF. estature, from L. statura, originally, an upright posture, hence,
height or size of the body, from stare, statum, to stand. See Stand.] The natural height of an animal
body; — generally used of the human body.
Foreign men of mighty stature came.
Dryden. Statured
(Stat"ured) a. Arrived at full stature. [R.]
Status
(||Sta"tus) n. [L.] State; condition; position of affairs.
Status in quo
(||Sta"tus in` quo" ||Sta"tus quo"). [L., state in which.] The state in which anything is already.
The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo
ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war.
Statutable
(Stat"u*ta*ble) a.
1. Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or
remedy.
2. Made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures.
Statutably
(Stat"u*ta*bly), adv. Conformably to statute.
Statute
(Stat"ute) n. [F. statut, LL. statutum, from L. statutus, p. p. of statuere to set, station, ordain,
fr. status position, station, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constitute, Destitute.]
1. An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a
positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; — used
in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a. Bouvier.
Statute is commonly applied to the acts of a legislative body consisting of representatives. In monarchies,
legislature laws of the sovereign are called edicts, decrees, ordinances, rescripts, etc. In works on
international law and in the Roman law, the term is used as embracing all laws imposed by competent
authority. Statutes in this sense are divided into statutes real, statutes personal, and statutes mixed;
statutes real applying to immovables; statutes personal to movables; and statutes mixed to both classes
of property.
