forshape
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forshape
Where it comes from
From Middle English forshapen, forschapen (“to transform”), from Old English forsċieppan, forsċeppan (“to transform”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraskappjan, equivalent to for- + shape. Cognate with German verschaffen (“to provide, supply, furnish”), Swedish förskapa (“to cut out”).
verb forshapes · forshaping · forshaped · forshapen
- To metamorphose; change the shape of; transform. late 14th century, John Gower, Confessio Amantis Unkindelich he was transformed, That he which erst a man was formed, Into a woman was forshape, That was to him an angry jape.
- To put out of shape; distort; make misshapen; disfigure.
