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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Sculptured tortoise} (Zool.), a common North American wood
        tortoise ({Glyptemys insculpta}). The shell is marked with
        strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured
        figures.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sculptured
       adj 1: cut into a desired shape; "graven images"; "sculptured
              representations" [syn: {graven}, {sculpted}]
       2: resembling sculpture; "her finely modeled features";
          "rendered with...vivid sculptural effect"; "the
          sculpturesque beauty of the athletes' bodies" [syn: {modeled},
           {sculptural}, {sculpturesque}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "sculptured":
     anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anastatic, carved, ceroplastic, chased,
     creased, cut, embossed, enchased, engraved, engraven, furrowed,
     glyphic, glyptic, graved, graven, grooved, hammered, impressed,
     imprinted, in relief, incised, inscribed, insculptured, lined,
     marked, modeled, molded, printed, sculpted, sculptile, stamped,
     tooled, toreutic
  
  

















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