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unˈshapely, a.
(un-1 7. Cf. ON. úskapligr (Sw. oskaplig, Norw. uskapleg) misshapen, etc.)
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Ðe meshakele [is] of medeme fustane,..ðe corporeals sole, and unshapliche. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) 7160 His bodi..is michel,..Fram þe nouel vpward vnschepliche. a1400Morte Arth. 1099 Schouelle⁓fotede was that schalke..With schankez unschaply. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1158 On-shaply þou art to see! 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 89 Our auncient rymers..many times made their meetres..of such vnshapely wordes as would allow no conuenient Cesure. 1615Crooke Body of Man 113 It is an vnshapely body, very loose, all glandulous. 1645Boate Ireland's Nat. Hist. (1652) 64 Things like Boats, but very unshapely, being nothing but square peeces of timber made hollow. 1752Hume Ess. on Original Contract ii. xii. (1777) I. 471 The people being commonly very rude builders,..it is natural to imagine, that their workmanship must be a little unshapely. 1802Playfair Illustr. Hutton. Th. 114 An immense mass of solid rock, naked and unshapely. 1874J. Fiske Cosmic Philos. i. ii. I. 26 An apparently-solid edifice, which fell into unshapely ruin at the first rude blast of criticism. |