Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The skin of a seal removed with the blubber adhering to it.
- To cut; carve; engrave; sculpture.
- To flense, flay, or take the skin and blubber from, as a seal.
- Abbreviations of the Latin sculpsit, he (or she) engraved or carved (it): also
sc . and sculps. - of sculptor;
- of sculptural
- of sculpture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or Humorous. To sculpture; to carve; to engrave.
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- verb obsolete To
sculpture ; tocarve orengrave .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like a magical tale! thanks for sahering it sculp Says:
Knievel’s Wild Ride 2006
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July 3rd, 2006 at 7: 48 pm wow great pictures sculp Says:
Animals Closeups 2006
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However, these new underpants have not had the benefit of time to mould and sculp themselves to my cheeks.
toastcrumbs Diary Entry toastcrumbs 2007
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At his left hip on a richly sculp-ted baldrick was carved a dagger with an ornate gilded hilt.
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The core of the tradition is the “canon of proportions,” which has its antecedents in Egyptian theory of sculp - ture and its descendants in the formulations for art by artists such as Dürer, Leonardo, and Le Corbusier.
CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968
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The point of it is that countless earlier treatises applied the principle of imitation but only to a particular group of arts — some to poetry, others to painting and sculp - ture.
MIMESIS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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Greece; it finds expression in its literature and philoso - phy (except that of Plato), and its influence can be traced in the sad dignity of the farewell scenes sculp - tured on many tombs.
SIN AND SALVATION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968
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While crafts produce useful and necessary objects, the function of painting, sculp - ture, and poetry is to keep things in human memory.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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What one person finds beautiful in women, in clothes, in buildings, in sculp - ture, in music, may not appear beautiful at all to another who is older or younger or is from a different ethnic group or “subculture.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MONROE C. BEARDSLEY 1968
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Like Pythagoras 'reduction of “woodland notes wild” to mathematical ratio, the writers within this tradition have tried to make of painting and sculp - ture arts wholly intelligible in mathematical terms.
CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968
chained_bear commented on the word sculp
To separate hide and fat from a carcass, as of a seal.
December 10, 2007