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was a great favourite among tire remains of antiquity. For 
this preference it was indebted to its swelling sentiments, 
verging to bombast, and to the savage and sanguinary cha¬ 
racter of its incidents, which suited the times of chivalrous 
turbulence. But with these faults it exhibits strokes of the 
real sublime, and considerable force and novelty in. natural 
description, especially in the similies.” The best editions 
are those of Caspar Barthius, 4to. 1664; of Veenhuysen, 
Lug. Bat. 8 vo. 1671; and the Delphin, 2 vols. 4to. 1685. 
Markland’s edition of the “ Sylvae” is highly esteemed. 
STA'TUAEY, s. [statuaire, Fr.; from statua, Lat.] 
The art of carving images or representations of life.—Paint¬ 
ing and the statuary-e.il, cousin germans to poetry. Hake - 
•will. —The northern nations, that overwhelmed it by their 
numbers, were too barbarous to preserve the remains of learn¬ 
ing more carefully than they did those of architecture and 
statuary. Temple.- —One that practises or professes the art 
of making statues. 
As the statuary. 
That, by the large size of Alcides’ foot, 
Guess’d at his whole proportion. Beaum. and FI. 
On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from 
the poets. Addison.— How shall any man, who hath a 
genius for histo.y, undertake such a work with spirit and 
chearfulness, when he considers that he will be read with 
pleasure but a very few years ? This is like employing an 
excellent statuary to work upon mouldering stone. Swift. 
STA'TUE, s. [ statue , Fr.; statua, Lat.] The Latin 
form was anciently followed by our writers; and continued 
to be in use, till late in the seventeenth century. “ Let 
there be a fountain, or some fair work of statuas , in the 
middest of this court." Bacon.] An image; a solid re¬ 
presentation of any living being.-—Architects propounded 
unto Alexander to cut the mountain Athos into the form of 
a statue, which in his right hand should hold a town capa¬ 
ble of containing ten thousand men, and in his left a vessel 
to receive all the water that flowed from the mountain. 
Wilkins. 
To STA'TUE, v. a. To place as a statue; to form as a 
statue. Unused. 
Thou shalt be worshipp’d, kiss’d, lov’d and ador’d; 
And were there senses in his idolatry. 
My substance should be statued in thy stead. Shakspeare. 
To STATU'MINATE, v. a, \statumino , Lat.] To sup¬ 
port ; to underprop. Not in use. —I will statuminate and 
underprop thee. B. Jonsort. 
STA'TURE, s. [stature, Fr.; statura, Lat.] The height 
of any animal.—-What stature we attain at seven years we 
sometimes double, most times come short of at one-and- 
twenty. Bacon. 
STA'TURED, adj. Arrived at full stature. 
How doth the giant honour seeme 
Well statur'd in my fond esteeme! Hall. 
ST A'TUTABLE, adj. According to statute.—-I met with 
one who was three inches above five feet, the statutable mea¬ 
sure of that club. Addison. 
ST A'TUTABLY, adv. In a manner agreeable to law.— 
Holder was siatutably established in this place by Dr. Fell. 
War ton. 
STA'TUTE, s. [statutum, Lat.] A law; an edict of 
the legislature.—Not only the common law, but also the 
.statutes and acts of parliament, were specially intended for 
its benefit. Spenser. 
STATUTORY, adj. Enacted by statute.—In the for- 
mulary and statutory part of law a plodding blockhead 
may excel; but in the ingenious and rational part of it, a 
plodding blockhead can never excel. Johnson. 
STAVANGER, an old town in the south of Norway, 
on the coast. It was formerly a bishop’s see, but, on the 
town being burnt down in 1686, the bishopric was removed 
to Ghristiansand. The cathedral, however, remains, and 
is the finest in Norway. The town contains 2500 inhabi- 
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tants, and has a small harbour and good fisheries; 85 miles 
north-west of Ghristiansand. Lat. 58. 58. 20. N. long. 5, 
56. 45. E. 
STAUBBACH, a celebrated cataract in the Swiss canton 
of Bern, near the village of Lauterbrunn. The quantity 
of water is small, but the descent is almost unexampled, the 
water falling from a height of 1400 feet. 
To STAVE, o. a. [from staff.] To break in pieces: 
used originally of barrels made of small parts or staves.—If 
an irreverent expression, or a thought too wanton, are crept 
into my verses, let them be stav'd or forfeited like contra¬ 
banded goods. Dry den.- —To push away as with a staff: 
with off .—How can they escape the contagion of the writ¬ 
ings, whom the virulency of the calumnies have not staved 
off from reading. B. Jonson.— To pour out by breaking 
the cask.—-The feared disorders that might ensue thereof have 
been an occasion that divers times all the wine in the city 
hath been staved. Sandys. —To furnish with rundles or 
staves.—.This was the shameful end of Aloysus Grittus, Soly- 
man’s deputy in Hungary; who climbing too fast up the 
evil-staved ladder of ambition, suddenly fell, and never rose 
more. Knolles. 
To STAVE, v. n. To fight with staves. 
Equal shame and envy stirr’d 
I’ the enemy, that one should be heard 
So many warriours, and so stout. 
As he had done, and stav'd it out. Hudibras. 
To STAVE and Tail, v. n. To part dogs, by inter¬ 
posing a staff, and by pulling the tale. 
The conquering foe they soon assail’d, 
First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd. 
Until their mastiffs loos’d their hold. Hudibras. 
STAVE, s. A metrical portion; a staff. It is a com¬ 
mon term for the verse of one of the psalms appointed to be 
sung. 
STAVELE, a small town of the Netherlands, in the pro¬ 
vince or West Flanders, with 1000 inhabitants; 10 miles 
west-north-west of Ypres. 
STAVELY, a parish of England, West Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 3 miles south-west of Boroughbridge. 
STAVELY, a parish of England, in Derbyshire; 4J miles 
north-east of Chesterfield. Population 1793. 
STAVELEY, a hamlet of England, in Lancashire; 9 
miles north-east of Ulverston. 
STAVELEY, NETHER, a hamlet of England, in West¬ 
moreland ; 5 miles north-west-by-north of Kendal. 
STAVELEY OVER, a hamlet in the above county, half 
a mile distant from the foregoing. 
STAVELOT. See Stablo. 
STAVENISSE, a village of the Netherlands, in the pro¬ 
vince of Zealand, with 700 inhabitants; 13 miles west-north¬ 
west of Bergen-op-Zoom. 
STAVEREN, a small town of the Netherlands, in the 
rovince of Friesland, on the Zuyderzee, opposite to Enk- 
uysen. It is a very ancient place, having been once the 
residence of the kings of Friesland, and at a later period one 
of the Hanse towns. Its harbour was large and commodious 
but repeated inundations of the sea have choaked it up, 
reducing its trade to insignificance, and its population to 
1100; 14 miles north-north-east of Endhuysen. Lat. 52. 
54. N. long. 5. 13- E. 
STAVERN, a small town of the south of Norway,* with 
a fortress and harbour, which serves as a port to the town of 
Laurwig, and as a station for gallies and small ships of war. 
STAVERTON, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 3 
miles norlh-by-west of Totness. Population 1001. 
STAVERTON, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire; 
4| miles north-east of Gloucester. 
STAVERTON, a parish of England, in Northampton¬ 
shire ; 2 miles west-south-west of Daventry. Population 448 
STAVES, s. The plural of staff. 
All in strange manner arm’d, 
Some rustick knives, some staves in fire warm’d. Spenser. 
STA'VESACRE, 
