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shapen

[ shey-puhn ]

adjective

  1. having a designated shape (usually used in combination):

    a sprawling, ill-shapen building.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of shapen1

1250–1300; Middle English; Old English -sceapen (only in compounds); originally past participle of shape

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Example Sentences

And so saying, the mis-shapen little demon set up a hideous yell, and danced upon the ground as if frantic with rage.

A considerable quantity of odd shapen gravel stones were also found in a bag, but for what use these were intended is unknown.

They would have inherited purity and a blessing for the Father's sake, instead of being "shapen in iniquity."

And Keckerman, by way of inference, excludes all that are ill-shapen from this presbyterian function in the church.

The trivial questions I want to put could hardly be shapen in a letter so as to govern an answer that would satisfy my need.

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