[f. FASHION v. + -ED1.] Wrought into fashion or shape; formed with art or skill. Rarely of persons.
1535. Coverdale, Isa. xlii. 16. Let them conuerte, and be ashamed earnestly, that hope in Idols, & saye to fashioned ymages: ye are oure godes.
1691. Locke, Lower. Interest, Wks. 1727. II. 83. Fashion’d Plate sells for more than its Weight of the same Silver.
1807. Sir R. Wilson, Jrnl., 9 July, in Life (1862), II. viii. 305. I had expected to see a gentleman, but I never saw one less fashioned.
1829. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), II. 86. A character is a completely fashioned will.
1881. J. Paton, in Encycl. Brit., XII. 299/2, ‘Hosiery.’ For the finishing of stockings, etc., it was necessary to seam up the selvages of web shaped on the frame (fashioned work), or to cut and seam them from even web (cut work).
b. preceded by adv. of manner.
1496. [see EVIL adv. 8 c].
1710. Lond. Gaz., No. 4691/4. Florence O’Donoughue … a … clean Limb’d and well-fashioned Man.
1769. Dublin Merc., 16–19 Sept., 9/1. Black-Nose … has given such proof of his getting the finest fashioned foals.
1835. Lytton, Rienzi, I. 1. Less warlike or worse fashioned weapons.
