a. [UN-1 8 b. Cf. OE. unsceapen, unʓesceapen, MDu. ongescapen (Du. -schapen), MLG. ungeschapen, OHG. -scaffan (MHG. and G. -schaffen)] = UNSHAPED ppl. a.
13[?]. Cursor M., 367 (Gött.). Þe mater of foure elementis, Þat ȝeit was þan of forme vnschapin.
c. 1350. Athanasian Creed, in MS. Bodl. 425, fol. 69 b. Vnshapen fadir unshapen son is, Vnshapen heli gost in blis.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 163. Al þe longage of þe Norþhumbres … is … scharp, slitting, and frotynge and vnschape [L. incondita].
a. 1560. Phaër, Æneid, IX. (1562), Ff i b. An vnshapen bunchy speare … Sir Pandare whirling threw.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., I. ii. 251 (Q 1). Will she yet debase her eyes … On me that halt, and am vnshapen thus.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. vi. 116. A Bear brings forth her young informous and unshapen.
1695. J. Edwards, Perfect. Script., 322. This unshapen mass without form and void.
1728. R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., 42. Columns were originally made of unshapen Trees.
1747. Carte, Hist. Eng., I. 44. A rough unshapen stone, of an enormous size.
a. 1814. Mermaid, I. ii., in New Brit. Theatre, II. 478. They ran to mock her hump’d unshapen form.
1872. Morley, Voltaire, 9. Pale unshapen embryos of social sympathy.
Hence Unshapenness.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIII. xxii. (Tollem. MS.). It was clepid abbissus for unschapnesse,.. for it was distinged with no forme noþer schappe.
1648. Hexham, II. Ongeschapenheydt, Vncreatednesse, or Vnshapennesse.
