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▪ I. shapen, ppl. a.|ˈʃeɪp(ə)n|
[Strong pa. pple. of shape v. (OE. had earmsceapen wretched.) Cf. shaped ppl. a.]
1. Having a shape (of the kind specified by the qualifying word). Obs. exc. in well shapen (somewhat arch.).
a1300Cursor M. 8076 Þat sagh man neuer for-wit þat hore, Sua fraward scapen creature. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. (1910) 6 Haue the leche also clene handes and wele shapen nailez. 1470–85Malory Arthur ix. ii. 341 The knyȝt with the euylle shapen cote. c1500Melusine xxxiii. 235 His fayre and wel shappen body. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. Rom. Prol. {cross}{cross} iij, That the righte shapen workes abyde not behynde, but accompanye faythe. 1603Stow Surv. (ed. 3) 197 An vglie shapen sight appeared to them, comming in at the south Window. 1625Bacon Ess., Innovations, The Births of Liuing Creatures, at first, are ill shapen. 1703T. N. City & C. Purch. 85 A well shapen Man. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede vi, She was a good-looking woman.., well shapen.
2. Furnished with a definite shape; fashioned, shaped.
1483Cath. Angl. 333/1 Schapyne, aptus, aptatus, adplasmatus. 1558Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 88, I bequith all my shappen apparell as jacketts, dubletts and others unto my children. Ibid. 141, 200. 1887 Morris Odyss. xii. 15 And withal on the topmost tomb we set the shapen oar. 1891― Poems by Way (1896) 214 Yet on he went until he heard The cry become a shapen word.
▪ II. shapen, v. rare.|ˈʃeɪp(ə)n|
[f. shape n.1 + -en5; cf. shapen ppl. a.]
trans. To shape, impart a shape to.
1535Coverdale 1 Kings xxviii. 14 He sayde: How is he shapened? She sayde: There commeth vp an olde man, and is clothed with a longe garment. 1587Golding De Mornay vii. 90 Seeing this Chaos could not receiue either shape or order but by the said Soule,..how met they together,..the one to shape, and the other to be shapned? 1603Florio Montaigne i. xxiv. 65 Their speciall charge was first to shapen his limmes and bodie, goodly, and healthie. 1618W. Lawson New Orch. & Gard. vii. (1623) 20 When it [sc. the sap]..shapens his buds for next yeeres fruit. 1819Crabbe Tales of Hall i. 235 The minor portions of his creed hung loose, For time to shapen and an whole produce. 1905Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 1/3 Wait..until the creature has..shapened itself into the form of a cottage loaf.
Hence ˈshapening vbl. n.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. i. ix, This is the nourishing Of all; but spermall form, the certain shapening. Ibid. ii. iii. i. xix, The soul doth imitate and bring Thy eye to such a temper in her shapening. |