Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the height or stature of.
- Of or arrived at full stature.
- Conditioned; circumstanced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Arrived at full stature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective in combination Of or having a certain kind of
stature .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A typical Japanese is also very small statured by our standards.
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The narrow pupils of their eyes the centre of the universe, they image the universe in terms of themselves, of their meagre personalities make pitiful yardsticks with which to measure the high-bright souls, saying: "Thus long are all souls, and no longer; it is impossible that there should exist greater-statured souls than we are, and our gods know that we are great of stature."
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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What bow would be close to best for a small statured woman like myself?
New to bow hunting 2009
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Many times, in the jacket, has Adam Strang recrudesced, but always he springs into being full-statured, heavy-thewed, a full thirty years of age.
Chapter 15 2010
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Out of the unknown, from the somewhere and something else, too unconditional for him to know any of the conditions, instantly they appeared, full-statured, walking about Meringe Plantation with loin-cloths about their middles and bone bodkins through their noses, and being put to work by Mister
Chapter 1 2010
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A typical Japanese is also very small statured by our standards.
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They belonged to the big-eyed, small-statured Omomyid family, living in trees and eating bugs, looking a little like dwarf lemurs today.
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With myriad series like Little Chocolatiers, The Little Couple and Little People, Big World, reality shows about small-statured folks have taken off in a big way.
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Mr. Foxworth's Lear, for instance, is not a giant brought low by his flaws but a weak, snappish, small-statured ruler (he is shorter than all three of his daughters) whose pettiness destroys him.
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The narrow pupils of their eyes the center of the universe, they image the universe in terms of themselves, of their meager personalities make pitiful yardsticks with which to measure the high-bright souls, saying: 'Thus long are all souls, and no longer; it is impossible that there should exist greater-statured souls than we are, and our gods know that we are great of stature.'
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