单词 | unshapely |
释义 | unshapelyadj. (un- prefix1 1. Cf. Old Norse úskapligr (Swedish oskaplig, Norwegian uskapleg) misshapen, etc.) ΘΚΠ 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 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Ðe meshakele [is] of medeme fustane,..ðe corporeals sole, and unshapliche. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 7160 His bodi..is michel,..Fram þe nouel vpward vnschepliche. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1099 Schouelle~fotede was that schalke..With schankez unschaply. c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1158 On-shaply þou art to see! 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iv. 62 Our auncient rymers..many times made their meetres..of such vnshapely wordes as would allow no conuenient Cesure. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 113 It is an vnshapely body, very loose, all glandulous. a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) viii. 64 Things like Boats, but very unshapely, being nothing but square peeces of timber made hollow. 1752 D. Hume Ess. on Orig. Contract (1777) I. ii. xii. 471 The people being commonly very rude builders,..it is natural to imagine, that their workmanship must be a little unshapely. 1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 114 An immense mass of solid rock, naked and unshapely. 1874 J. Fiske Outl. Cosmic Philos. I. i. ii. 26 An apparently-solid edifice, which fell into unshapely ruin at the first rude blast of criticism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.c1200 |
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