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▪ I. † mis-ˈshapen, v. Obs. rare.
[? f. mis-shapen pa. pple.]
= mis-shape v.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 361, I am aferd þat I sall oght be mysshapend [cf. ante sho was shapen to be a biche whelpe]. 1555Eden Decades To Rdr. (Arb.) 53 People mysshapened with phantastical opinions. 1788Trifler No. xvi. 217, I conceived that the purest favour of Providence might be so perverted and mishapened, that [etc.].
▪ II. mis-shapen, ppl. a.|mɪsˈʃeɪp(ə)n|
Forms: 4–6 mys-, mischapen, (5 -on, -yn, 6 -shapin), 6–7 mishapen, 4– misshapen, (7– mis-shapen). Also 4–5 myschape, mysshap(e.
[f. mis-1 2 + shapen, pa. pple. of shape v.]
1. Having a bad or ugly shape; ill-shaped; deformed; monstrous.
c1375Cursor M. 8076 (Fairf.) Sagh men neuer of na cures sa misshapen creatures. c1400Destr. Troy 5482 Mysshapon bestes. Ibid. 7758 There met hym þis Mawhown, þat was so mysshap. c1440Promp. Parv. 339/2 Myschape thynge yn kynde, monstruosus. 1530Palsgr. 637/1 He is the moste mysshapen slovyn that ever you sawe. 1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iii. (1586) 123 b, It sildome falleth out, that a good minde is lodged in a mishapen bodie. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 251 On me, that halts, and am mishapen thus? 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 1054 A mis⁓shapen ugly race; The curse of God was seen on every face. 1711Addison Spect. No. 50 ⁋3 An huge mis-shapen Rock that grew upon the Top of the Hill. 1833H. Martineau Charmed Sea iv. 48 Jagged, misshapen pieces of silver. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Character, The mis⁓shapen hairy Scandinavian troll.
2. transf. and fig. Badly formed, shaped, or framed; distorted; † morally monstrous or ugly.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1355 In notyng of nwe metes & of nice gettes, Al was þe mynde of þat man, on misschapen þinges. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 8 If I should write all the euils manifolde, That proceedeth of this counterfaite abusion, And misshapen fashions I neuer should haue done. 1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 59 A mis⁓shapin illfavorid freshe copy of my precious poems. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xxiv, Crooked and mis-shapen minds. a1631Donne Poems (1650) 93 Mishapen Cavils, palpable untroths. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Ch. Militant 46 Such power hath mightie Baptisme to produce For things mis⁓shapen, things of highest use. 1670in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 15 Their ordnary designes [in tapestry] for the most part being deformed and mishapen. 1809W. Irving Hist. New York iv. iii. (1820) 238 Some dozen..mis-shapen, nine-cornered Dutch oaths and epithets that crowded all at once into his gullet.
†3. ‘Without form’ (Gen. i. 2). Obs.
1639Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. ii. §20 A kind of darke and mis-shapen thicke fogge.
4. ‘In Shakespeare, perhaps, it once signifies ill directed; as, to shape a course’ (J.).
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iii. 131 Thy wit, that Ornament, to shape and Loue, Mishapen in the conduct of them both.
Hence mis-ˈshapenly adv., mis-ˈshapenness († mishapnesse), deformity.
1587Golding De Mornay ix. (1592) 123 Euen mishapnesse it self is a kind of shape. 1611Cotgr., Monstrüeusement, monstrously; mishapenly. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 94 To let you see the misshapennesse of your Argument. 1883B. Harte Carquinez Woods i. 3 At times this life seemed to take visible form, but as vaguely, as mis⁓shapenly as the phantom of a nightmare. 1903G. Matheson Repr. Men of Bible Ser. ii. 271 It was as if a deformed creature..for the first time beheld his misshapenness. |