rare exc. in pa. pple. [f. STATURE sb.] trans. To give stature to. (Some of the examples quoted may belong to STATURED a.)
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., XIII. 24. Ypomelides Beth appultreen,… A commyn tre statured dout[e]lees, With whitly flour coloured.
1609. Heywood, Brit. Troy, XI. xvi. Their growth is strange, whom I compare aright, Vnto the Mushroome, statur’d in a night.
1635. Quarles, Embl., II. vi. Were thy dimension but a stride, Nay, wert thou statur’d but a span.
1638. Mayne, Lucian (1664), 260. But if they will appeare alike statured, the taller is to stoope, and depresse himselfe.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Essex (1662), 334. I match him [Tusser] with Thomas Church-yard, they being mark’d alike in their Poeticall parts, living in the same time, and statur’d alike in their Estates, both low enough I assure you.
1872. Tennyson, Gareth & Lynette, 277. Old Master, reverence thine own beard That … seems Wellnigh as long as thou art statured tall!
