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▪ I. mis-shape, n. Now rare.|mɪsˈʃeɪp|
[mis-1 4.]
A bad or deformed shape or figure; deformity. Also concr. a mis-shapen body or person.
c1465Eng. Chron. (Camden 1856) 7 The whiche Edmund hadde a crokid bak and was a mysshape. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 223 Silenus..whom for his monstreous myshape,..Jupiter, Apollo [etc.],..used for their foole. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 530 The diuels of Crowland with their long tailed buttocks, and ugly mishapes. 1654Whitelocke Mem. (1732) 596/1 Hardly to be called Men or Women, by reason of their mishapes. 1875G. Macdonald Malcolm I. xxii. 281 Disorder and misshape must appear to it the law of the universe.
▪ II. mis-shape, v.|mɪsˈʃeɪp|
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To shape ill; to give a bad form to; to deform. lit. and fig.
1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 98 Oure..soulle..ys made to hys lykenesse but yt was defoyled and darkyd and mys-shape by synne. 1530Palsgr. 637/2, I myshappe, or bring out of facyon. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cix. 669 Such as mishape thinges by their inchauntments. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. v. 27 Whom..she does transforme..And horribly misshapes with ugly sightes. 1673Howe Self Dedication 292 They do strangely mis-shape religion who frame to themselves a religion made up of..doubts and fears. 1703J. Savage Lett. Antients viii. 49 Mishape me, if you please, into any Monstrous Form. 1798Coleridge Picture Poems (1864) 157 A thousand circlets spread And each mis⁓shape the other. 1858Greener Gunnery 436 If the distance the drops fall be not sufficiently great, and they reach the water in a semi-fluid state, the resistance of the water mis⁓shapes them. |