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† inˈformous, a. Obs.
[app. f. L. inform-is inform a. + -ous, but cf. formous, OF. formeus, L. formōsus.]
Having no definite form, shapeless; of an uncomely form, unshapely.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 267 A man prudently pliable to times..excessive in vaste informous buildings. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. vi. 116 That a Bear brings forth her young informous and unshapen, which she fashioneth after by licking them over, is an opinion not only vulgar..but hath been of old delivered by ancient Writers. 1701C. Wolley Jrnl. N. York (1860) 40. |