[f. STATUE sb.]
1. trans. To represent in a statue or in statuary; to honor (a person) by erecting a statue of him. Now only as nonce-use.
1607[?]. Day, Parl. Bees, viii. (1641), F 2 b. At the foure corners of this Chariot Ile have the foure windes statued.
1611. Florio, Statuare, to statue, to image.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. xv. 42. He did not feare to lose his head,… for if he did, the Athenians would give him one immortall. He should be Statued, in the treasury of eternall fame.
1672. Eachard, Hobbes’ St. Nat. Consid., 64. It is great pity but that you should be entomb’d at Westminster, and statued up at Gresham Colledge for the great moral discoverer of the Age.
1895. W. Wright, Zenobia & Palmyra, x. 107. Another citizen erected seven columns … and he was ‘statued’ in March 179 A.D.
† 2. To turn into a statue. Obs. rare.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. xxxvi. 111. The eye is dimme, in the discoloured face; and the whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.
