v. Obs. [f. L. statūmināt-, ppl. stem of statūmināre, f. statūmin-, statūmen prop, support, f. statu-ĕre to set up: see STATUTE.] trans. To support, establish.
a. 1628. F. Grevil, Sidney, i. (1652), 6. Those eminent Plants … which blast, or bite not, but rather statuminate, and refresh the Vines … or whatsoever groweth under their shaddows.
1631. B. Jonson, New Inn, II. vi. I will statuminate and vnderprop thee.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., IV. vi. (1677), 346. A miraculous interposition in all the ordinary procedures of things already fully setled and statuminated by the first Divine Efficiency.
Hence † Statuminated ppl. a. Also † Statumination.
1658. Phillips, Statumination, an underpropping or setting up.
1674. Hale, Diffic. Nugæ (1675), 238. The God of Nature, whose standing and statuminated Law Nature is, hath so ordered it.
