† afformv.

Forms: 1500s afforme, 1500s affourmed, 1600s 1800s afforme.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin afformare.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin afformare to fit (13th cent. in a British source), to form (15th cent.), to conform (a1540) < classical Latin af- , variant of ad- (see af- prefix) + formāre form v.¹ Compare Old French aformer to instruct, (reflexive) to take shape (late 13th cent.).

Obsolete (somewhat archaic in later use).

transitive. To form, fashion; to model according to.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > model on or fashion after

comparisona1382

counterfeitc1430

like?c1450

exemplify1566

pattern1567

afform1578

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 33 This same head [of thigh bone]..is almost wholly affourmed by an orbicular Appendaunce.

a1600 Doctrynall Good Servauntes in E. F. Rimbault Anc. Poet. Tracts 16th Cent. (1842) 8 To hym that is most honourable, Afforme your maners and your entent.

1677 F. Bampfield All in One 143 There was no want of Spirit in the Creator, which he could have breathed into many, but he afformed but one Eve into a Wife for Adam.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Germen Germ..may be used in preference to Germen, and afforms a much better plural.

1893 P. F. Mottelay tr. W. Gilbert On Loadstone & Magn. Bodies ii. iv. 112 Iron attracts iron more powerfully than does a loadstone, if the iron be afformed, and remain within the sphere of the form given out to it.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	afform
释义	† afformv. Forms: 1500s afforme, 1500s affourmed, 1600s 1800s afforme. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin afformare. Etymology: < post-classical Latin afformare to fit (13th cent. in a British source), to form (15th cent.), to conform (a1540) < classical Latin af- , variant of ad- (see af- prefix) + formāre form v.¹ Compare Old French aformer to instruct, (reflexive) to take shape (late 13th cent.). Obsolete (somewhat archaic in later use). transitive. To form, fashion; to model according to. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > model on or fashion after comparisona1382 counterfeitc1430 like?c1450 exemplify1566 pattern1567 afform1578 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 33 This same head [of thigh bone]..is almost wholly affourmed by an orbicular Appendaunce. a1600 Doctrynall Good Servauntes in E. F. Rimbault Anc. Poet. Tracts 16th Cent. (1842) 8 To hym that is most honourable, Afforme your maners and your entent. 1677 F. Bampfield All in One 143 There was no want of Spirit in the Creator, which he could have breathed into many, but he afformed but one Eve into a Wife for Adam. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Germen Germ..may be used in preference to Germen, and afforms a much better plural. 1893 P. F. Mottelay tr. W. Gilbert On Loadstone & Magn. Bodies ii. iv. 112 Iron attracts iron more powerfully than does a loadstone, if the iron be afformed, and remain within the sphere of the form given out to it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < v.1578
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