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shaped, ppl. a.|ʃeɪpt|
[f. shape v. and n. + -ed. Cf. shapen ppl. a.]
1. In senses of the verb. Often with prefixed adv.
1540Palsgr. Acolastus iii. iii. P iv b, That hurtful or noysom yll which..did cast away our first formed or shaped fathers. 1720Ozell Vertot's Rom. Rep. II. xiii. 340 Caius Julius Cæsar..was the best shap'd Man of his Time. 1845Mrs. M. J. Howell Hand-bk. Dress-making 53 For cambrics, or muslins, this shaped body is most eligible. 1857Dickens Dorrit xv, That fair ship began to steer steadily on a shaped course. 1862H. B. Wheatley Anagrams 18 Shaped verses are instances of the most egregious folly. It was the fashion among the minor poets to compose poems formed in the shape of every conceivable thing. 1863Q. Rev. CXIV. 387 Shaped bones and chipped flints lay in the same deposit. 1890Hardwicke's Sci. Gossip. XXVI. 33/2 The curiously shaped rhinoceros beetle.
2. In parasynthetic derivatives of adj. + shape n., as many-shaped adj.
1593Queen Elizabeth Boeth. ii. pr. i. 20, I vnderstand the many shaped [multiformes] deceites of her wonder. 1866Field 6 Jan. 10/2 The first-named..being as fine a shaped hound as ever I saw.
3. Special collocations: shaped charge, an explosive charge having a cavity which causes the blast to be concentrated into a small area; shaped note = shape note s.v. shape n.1 17.
1889F. H. Gilson Hist. Shaped or Character Notes 4 The great variety of systems embodying the same idea,—that is, a separate shape for each syllable,—came to be so confusing that the majority of the advocates of shaped notes finally agreed to adopt one system. 1945Chicago Tribune 18 Nov. vii. 1/5 We sang from song books printed with old time shaped notes. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 2 Jan. 1/3 A light but potent recoilless gun of the new type, using a ‘shaped charge’ like that of the bazooka. 1979A. Hailey Overload i. ii. 14 What the saboteur used, they decided, was a ‘shaped charge’—a cone of dynamite which, when detonated, had a forward velocity similar to that of a bullet. |