amorphoseadj.
/əˈmɔːfəʊs/, U.S. /əˈmɔrˌfoʊs/, /əˈmɔrˌfoʊz/ rare.
= amorphous adj. (in various senses).
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amorphous1806
amorphose1808
unbedded1842
1808 G. Montagu in Trans. Linn. Soc. 9 84 If in those of the Mollusca I should have arranged any one that may not accord with the opinion of the helminthologist, I have to plead the indivisible connection of the links in the amorphose subjects of this order, and the defective state of generic characters in the infantine progress of this abstruse science.
1826 J. M. Good Bk. Nature I. vi. 130 Grey-wacke and grey-wacke slate may be distinguished by the terms amorphose and schistose killas.
1903 Canad. Mag. Feb. 395/1 The London Outlook..labels Sir Alfred's Life of Tennyson as trite, amorphose, unilluminating, didactic and aterpene.
2015 Pure & Appl. Geophysics 172 1212 (caption) Alternating bands of light and dark amorphose material that forms isoclinal folds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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