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单词 trans-shape
释义 I. trans-ˈshape, tranˈshape, n. Obs.
[f. trans-shape v.]
Change of shape; transformation; metamorphosis.
1611Heywood Golden Age iv. i, By our transhapes And guiles of loue.1613Silver Age ii. i, But her search He soone deluded in his slye trans-shapes.1636Love's Mistr. i. i, Ile shew thee..What kind of people I commerst withall In my transhape.
II. trans-shape, transhape, v. Now rare (? arch.).|trɑːnsˈʃeɪp, træns-|, |trɑːnˈʃeɪp, træn-|
[f. trans- + shape v.]
trans. To alter the shape or form of; to transform.
1575Fenton Gold. Epist. (1577) 332 The Oliue and Laurell, into the which were transhaped Lotus and Daphne.1599Shakes. Much Ado v. i. 172 Thus did shee an howre together trans-shape thy particular vertues.1638Heywood Rape Lucrece Wks. 1874 V. 179 Hee's from a toward hopefull Gentleman, Transeshapt to a meere Ballater.1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 53 Till Soto by degrees was transhaped into a goodly Steed.1659Lady Alimony ii. vi. E iv b, When th' Camel shall Transhape himself into a nimble Wesil,..I shall value you.1855Singleton Virgil I. 45 Or how he told of Tereus' limbs transshaped.
Hence trans-shaped |-ˈʃeɪpt| ppl. a.; trans-ˈshaping vbl. n.
1602Marston 2nd Pt. Ant. & Mel. iv. i, Rather put on some transhap't cavalier, Some habit of a spitting critick.1909tr. Jusserand's Lit. Hist. Eng. III. 140 Deeds of sorcery..: apparitions, evocations, transhapings.
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