‖n. [ L., let him be admitted. ] The certificate of admission given in some American colleges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fort.) A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the actual object referred to by a linguistic expression. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. dictatura: cf. F. dictature. ] Office of a dictator; dictatorship. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of metatungstic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. meta- + tungstic. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. posse to be able, to have power + LL. comitatus a county, from comes, comitis, a count. See County, and Power. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Law) The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word comitatus is often omitted, and posse alone used. “A whole posse of enthusiasts.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if the passion that rules were the sheriff of the place, and came off with all the posse. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A statue. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They spake not a word;
But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones,
Gazed each on other. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Statuaries [ L. statuarius, n., fr. statuarius, a., of or belonging to statues, fr. statua statue: cf. F. statuaire. See Statue. ] 1. One who practices the art of making statues. [ 1913 Webster ]

On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ L. statuaria (sc. ars): cf. F. statuaire. ] The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A collection of statues; statues, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. statua (akin to stativus standing still), fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand. ] 1. The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will raise her statue in pure gold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A portrait. [ Obs. ] Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Statued p. pr. & vb. n. Statuing. ] To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue. “The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.” Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adorned with statues. “The statued hall.” Longfellow. “Statued niches.” G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a statue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a statue; motionless. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this respect, that they have no background. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue. [ 1913 Webster ]

A character statuesquely simple in its details. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foreign men of mighty stature came. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Arrived at full stature. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] State; condition; position of affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } [ L., state in which. ] The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of peace, 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. The form status quo is in most common use. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Conformably to statute. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 from common law. See Common law, under Common, a. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Statute is commonly applied to the acts of a legislative body consisting of representatives. In monarchies, the 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair. [ Eng. ] Cf. 3d Mop, 2. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Statute book, a record of laws or legislative acts. Blackstone. --
Statute cap, a kind of woolen cap; -- so called because enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated in 1571, in behalf of the trade of cappers. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. --
Statute fair. See Statute, n., 3, above. --
Statute labor, a definite amount of labor required for the public service in making roads, bridges, etc., as in certain English colonies. --
Statute merchant (Eng. Law), a bond of record pursuant to the stat. 13 Edw. I., acknowledged in form prescribed, on which, if not paid at the day, an execution might be awarded against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor, and the obligee might hold the lands until out of the rents and profits of them the debt was satisfied; -- called also a pocket judgment. It is now fallen into disuse. Tomlins. Bouvier. --
Statute mile. See under Mile. --
Statute of limitations (Law), a statute assigning a certain time, after which rights can not be enforced by action. --
Statute staple, a bond of record acknowledged before the mayor of the staple, by virtue of which the creditor may, on nonpayment, forthwith have execution against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor, as in the statute merchant. It is now disused. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Act; regulation; edict; decree. See Law. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Same as Tatou. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any armadillo of the family Tatusiidae, of which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

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