a. Of the size of life; (of a picture or statue) equal in size to the original.
1841. Penny Cycl., XXI. 139/1. The figures are life-size.
1865. J. H. Ingraham, Pillar of Fire (1872), 340. Here … is a life-size image of Apis, when he was a calf.
1878. Browning, Poets of Croisic, Epil. xiii. So he made himself a statue: Marble stood, life-size.
1891. T. Hardy, Tess (1900), 81/1. Two life-size portraits on panels.
