Unshaped

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8. Cf. ON. úskapaðr, Sw. oskapad, Da. uskabt.] Not reduced or molded into shape; imperfectly formed; left rude or rough. Freq. fig.

1572.  Bossewell, Armorie, II. A sleue, vnshaped, and vnsowed.

1602.  Shaks., Ham., IV. v. 8. Her speech is nothing, Yet the vnshaped vse of it doth moue The hearers to Collection.

c. 1680.  P. Ayres, Embl. Love (1906), 355. See how the bear industriously does frame, And bring in time to form, her unshaped young.

1730.  Bailey (fol.), Mola Carnea … is a spungy unshaped Substance, without Bones or Bowels.

1798.  Wordsw., P. Bell, 296. All the unshaped half-human thoughts Which solitary Nature feeds.

1841.  Browning, Pippa Passes, II. Poems (1905), 179/1. Shall to produce form out of unshaped stuff Be Art?

1860.  Hawthorne, Marb. Faun, ii. He spoke … with the Tuscan rusticity of accent, and an unshaped sort of utterance.

  Hence Unshapedness.

1587.  Golding, De Mornay, x. 166. A certeine vnshapednesse; which is the cause of all mishapennesse.