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Webster 1913 Edition


Forshape

For-shape′

,
Verb.
T.
[Pref.
for-
+
shape
, v.t.]
To render misshapen.
[Obs.]
Gower.

Definition 2024


forshape

forshape

English

Verb

forshape (third-person singular simple present forshapes, present participle forshaping, simple past forshope or forshaped, past participle forshapen or forshaped)

  1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To metamorphose; change the shape of; transform.
    Unkindelich he was transformed, That he which erst a man was formed, Into a woman was forshape[n]. ― Gower.
  2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To put out of shape; distort; make misshapen; disfigure.