单词 | misshapen |
释义 | misshapenadj. 1. Having a bad, ugly, or wrong shape; ill-shaped; deformed; monstrous. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] misshapena1400 deformedc1400 forshapenc1440 misfashioned?a1513 inform1555 fromshapen1581 misformed1590 informous1610 disjointed1652 ill-formeda1672 abnormous1710 malformed1817 dislocated1830 aberrated1976 the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > not shapely or deformed unshapelyc1200 forcrookedc1305 deform1382 froward shapena1400 misshapena1400 deformedc1400 misshape1440 deformablec1450 disformatea1492 misshapeda1500 deformate?a1505 fashionless1581 unfashionable1597 shapeless1598 ill-proportioned1602 disformed1665 untrained1871 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 8076 (MED) Sagh men neuer..sa misshapen creatures. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 688 (MED) It was grete harme of the duerf that was so mysshapen, for he is bolde and hardy. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 637/1 He is the moste mysshapen slovyn that ever you sawe. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 5482 Mysshapon bestes. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 123 b It sildome falleth out, that a good minde is lodged in a mishapen bodie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) i. ii. 237 On me, that halts, and am mishapen [1597 vnshapen] thus? 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 132 A misshapen, ugly Race; The Curse of God was seen on ev'ry Face. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 50. ¶3 An huge mis-shapen Rock that grew upon the Top of the Hill. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xv. 281 The College and Hospital are rude, mis-shapen piles. 1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea iv. 48 Jagged, misshapen pieces of silver. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 137 The misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll. 1907 Practitioner Oct. 528 The misshapen cartilage having been entirely removed,..all obstruction on the part of the septum is a thing of the past. 1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden xvii. 184 She was misshapen; her belly, tight and heavy and distended. 1978 D. Smith Cookery Course I. 214 The tubers do look most misshapen, covered with daunting knobbly bits. 2000 C.-P. Adler Bone Dis. iii. 40/2 Below the cartilage there are misshapen, irregularly placed, ungainly bone trabeculae. 2. figurative and in extended use. Originally: †immoral, sinful, morally repugnant (obsolete). Now: badly formed, framed, or executed; distorted, perverted.According to Johnson, ‘mis-shapen’ in quot. 1599 ‘perhaps..signifies ill directed; as to shape a course’. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [adjective] awlyc1200 grievousa1300 grilla1300 uglya1300 strongc1300 outrageousa1325 heinousc1374 excessive1393 curseda1400 fella1400 misshapenc1400 rankc1400 monstruousc1425 enorm1481 prodigiousc1487 villainous1489 nefand1490 sceleratea1513 monstrous1531 funestal1538 enormious1545 facinorous1548 flagitious1550 dire1567 bonable1575 felonious1575 bomination1589 unvenial?1589 heathenish1592 enormous1593 villainous1598 nameless1611 pitchy1612 funest1636 funestous1641 scarleta1643 nefandous1649 aversable1663 atrocious1669 frightful1700 flagrant1706 atrocea1734 diabolical1750 unspeakable1831 society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > morally repulsive uglya1300 misshapenc1400 deformed1555 slimy1575 squalida1660 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1355 Al watz þe mynde of þat man on misschapen þinges. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xixv If I shulde wryte all the ylles manyfolde, That procedeth of this counterfayt abusion And mysshapen fassions: I neuer shulde haue done. 1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 59 A mis~shapin illfavorid freshe copy of my precious poems. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 130 Thy wit, that ornament, to shape and loue, Mishapen in the conduct of them both. View more context for this quotation 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxiv. 65 Crooked and mishapen mindes. 1635 Julia in J. Donne Poems 97 Mishapen Cavils, palpable untroths. 1670 in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 15 Their ordnary designes [in tapestry] for the most part being deformed and mishapen. 1807 Narr. Life H. Tufts iii. iv. 317 But no more of this futile language [sc. cant]; may it return to Europe, where it received its misshapen birth. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (1850) I. iv. 214 Some dozen..mis-shapen, nine-cornered Dutch oaths and epithets which crowded at once into his gullet. 1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 196 So we pass..from one droll devotion to another misshapen passion. 1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus v. 54 Man is at present in a misshapen stage, neither possessing the gentler customs of the beast, nor the faculties of the angel. 1981 D. Potter Pennies from Heaven i. 1 Around the next corner..the cruel and misshapen world was going to put on its dancing shoes. 2002 P. E. Flesner et al. Serm. Gospel Readings 86 Misshapen piety..comes out as spiritual exhibitionism. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [adjective] huelessa1100 shapelessa1400 globose?a1425 deformed1555 fashionless1581 disformed1591 formless1591 unshapeful1598 figureless1606 informous1610 proportionless1625 unbodied1630 unshapable1630 misshapen1640 unshapeless1640 difform1644 inform1654 difformed1665 amorphous1727 amorphic1856 1640 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) ii. §20 A kind of dark & mis-shapen thick fogge. Derivatives misˈshapenly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adverb] deformedly1593 misshapenly1611 deformlya1684 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Monstrüeusement, monstrously; mishapenly. 1883 B. Harte In Carquinez Woods i. 3 At times this life seemed to take visible form, but as vaguely, as mis~shapenly as the phantom of a nightmare. 1980 N.Y. Times 21 Sept. ii. 22/3 ‘Scary Monsters’ will not appeal to everybody, even everybody in the world of rock. It is too misshapenly ugly, grindingly abrasive and proudly self-withholding for that. 2000 C.-P. Adler Bone Dis. iii. 40/1 These cells are diffusely dispersed and misshapenly distended. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). misshapenv. transitive. = misshape v. Only in past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > put out of shape [verb (transitive)] deformc1400 misshapec1450 misshapenc1450 misform1483 misfashiona1525 bring1530 misfigure1563 disjoint1638 dislocate1660 forshape1884 c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 361 I am aferd þat I sall oght be mysshapend. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. bij People mysshapened with phantastical opinions. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xii. 69 Bruised and mis-shapen'd with the blows which..some others have so unhandsomely given me in the dark. 1788 Trifler No. xvi. 217 I conceived that the purest favour of Providence might be so perverted and mishapened. 1988 Science 239 1030/3 The atrial cardiocyte nuclei are grossly enlarged and misshapened. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1400v.c1450 |
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