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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sculpture \Sculp"ture\ (?; 135), verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sculptured
adjective
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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