Also Sc. fawsont. [f. FASHION sb. + -ED2.] Having or provided with a fashion (i.e., an appearance, manner, or shape) of a peculiar kind. Only in parasynthetic combinations as honest-, long-, many-, what-a-fashioned; also OLD-FASHIONED. Extension-fashioned (nonce-wd.): possessed of the property of extension.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbachs Husb., I. (1586), 10. A newe and a strange fashioned Mill of your owne devise.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 58. All the Greek stories can well testifie, that the very religion of that time, stoode vpon many, and many-fashioned Gods, not taught so by the Poets, but followed, according to their nature of imitation.
1633. T. Stafford, Pacata Hibernia, xiii. (1821), 631. Thus may your honour see what a fashioned warre, I doe conceiue to bee least in charge.
1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., I. vii. 14. The Peritonæum is like a Bladder, or a long-fashioned Egg.
1674. N. Fairfax, A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World, 64. One figure being as much extension fashiond as another, tis neither here nor there which.
1787. Burns, Twa Dogs, 142.
Theres monie a creditable stock | |
O decent, honest fawsont folk. |