mis-shapen

adjective

badly shaped; deformed.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English: past participle of misshape; see -en³

Related forms

mis·shap·en·ly, adverb

mis·shap·en·ness, noun

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verb (used with object), mis·shaped, mis·shaped or mis·shap·en, mis·shap·ing.

to shape badly or wrongly; deform.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see mis-¹, shape

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misshape

—vb , -shapes, -shaping, -shaped, -shaped, -shapen
1.	to shape badly; deform

—n
2.	something that is badly shaped

misshapen (ˌmɪsˈʃeɪp^ən)

—*adj*
	badly shaped; deformed

mis'shapenly

—*adv*

mis'shapenness

—n

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Word Origin & History

misshapen

"having a bad or ugly shape," late 14c.; see mis- (1) + shape (v.).

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"His whole works are a heap of mis-shapen errors, and absurd paradoxes, vented with the confidence of a juggler, the brags of a mountebank, and the authority of some Pythagoras, or third Cato, lately dropped down from heaven. Thus we have seen how the obbian principles do destroy the existence, the simplicity, the ubiquity, the eternity, and infiniteness of God, the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity, the hypostatical union, the kingly, sacerdotal, and prophetical office of Christ, the being and operation of the Holy Ghost, heaven, hell, angels, devils, the immortality of the soul, the Catholic and all national churches; the holy Scriptures, holy orders, the holy sacrament, the whole frame of religion, and the worship of God; the laws of nature, the reality of goodness, justice, piety, honesty, conscience, and all that is sacred."

-John Bramhall

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