Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sculpture \Sculp"ture\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sculptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Sculpturing.] To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
Sculptured tortoise (Zo["o]l.), a common North American wood tortoise ( Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Made like a sculpture. 2 Well shaped.
WordNet
adj. cut into a desired shape; "graven images"; "sculptured representations" [syn: graven, sculpted]
resembling sculpture; "her finely modeled features"; "rendered with...vivid sculptural effect"; "the sculpturesque beauty of the athletes' bodies" [syn: modeled, sculptural, sculpturesque]
Wikipedia
Sculptured is an American experimental death metal band, mixing melodic and atonal segments.
Usage examples of "sculptured".
You'll be the first sculptor to have that many sculptured marbles in one place since Phidias did the frieze on the Parthenon.
Bambino was well sculptured, Buonarroti, even though it was not an antique.
John and Two Saints in Santo Spirito, or to catch the sunset glow on the sculptured figures on the Campanile, designed by Giotto and executed by his pupil, Andrea Pisano, Torrigiani slipped his arm through Michelangelo's, wooed him, kept him a captive though enchanted audience.
Bertoldo pointed proudly to a series of eight sculptured classical figures between the tops of the arches and the window sills.
It is sculptured from a single block, both the main figures as well as the children, and the serpents with their marvelous folds.
There are three figures left to be sculptured: an angel here on the right, St.
Michelangelo was staggered to find himself surrounded by a hundred marble and granite columns, no two alike, carved by expert stonemasons, each with a differently sculptured capital, "eclectically borrowed from all over Rome," Leo explained, "but mainly from the front of the portico of the theater of Pompey.
The block saw him face to face, the sculptor and the sculptured involved in the tender restrained sadness.
Francis has already been sculptured by Pietro Torrigiani, who left the draperies and head unfinished, Michelangelo will complete the statue out of honor and courtesy, in Siena, so that the statue can stand among the others made by him, and anybody who sees it would say that it is the work of Michelangelo's hand.
The lilt of the rolling green hills, the upsurging cypresses, the terraces sculptured by generations that have handled the rocks with skillful tenderness, the fields geometrically juxtaposed as though drawn by a draftsman for beauty as well as productivity.
What had moved Moses was the passionate resolve that his people must not destroy themselves, that they must receive and obey the Commandments which God had sculptured on the stone tablets, and endure.
Alessandro's body, loathsome to all of Tuscany, was clandestinely dumped in the dark of night into the chastely sculptured sarcophagus under Dawn and Dusk.
He sculptured a head of Brutus, which the Florentine colony had been urging.
Its style of indolent luxury, of velvet drapes, sculptured panels and candlelight, seemed a deliberate contrast to its function: no one could afford its hospitality except men who came to New York on business, to settle transactions involving the world.
She noticed that he still sat as she had left him, his forearm leaning against the wheel at the same angle, the fingers of his hand hanging down in the same sculptured position.