单词 | misshape |
释义 | misshapen.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > person misshapec1400 counterfeit1557 hodmandod1664 zad1725 freak of nature1847 wingy1880 c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. viii. 78 Þere ben mo mysshapen [v.rr. myschapyn, mysshape, myshappis; myschapmen, mischefes; c1400 B text mysshape peple; c1400 C text messhapene] amonges hem..Þanne of alle oþer maner men þat on þis molde wandriþ. ?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 7 (MED) Edmund hadde a crokid bak and was a mysshape. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 223 Silenus..whom for his monstreous myshape,..Jupiter, Apollo [etc.],..used for their foole. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 530 The divels of Crowland, with their..long tailed buttocks, & vgly mishapes. a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1654 578/2 Hardly to be called Men, or Women, by reason of their mishapes. 2. A misshapen thing; a bad or deformed shape or figure; deformity. Now: spec. a badly formed or broken manufactured item (esp. a sweet or biscuit), frequently sold cheaply. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] crookedness1398 monstruosity1402 deformity1413 misfashioning1469 misfigurec1480 counterfeiturec1500 monstrosity1616 pravity1647 monstruousness1653 malformation1769 misformation1822 dysmorphia1848 misshape1867 aplasia1885 nanity1892 1867 R. M. Devens Pict. Bk. Anecd. War Rebellion (new ed.) ii. 166/2 Hats were crushed into every imaginable misshape. 1875 G. MacDonald Malcolm I. xxii. 281 Disorder and misshape must appear to it the law of the universe. 1976 Evening Post (Bristol) 23 Apr. 1/2 (advt.) 60 Birdseye Fishfingers (mishapes) 99p. 1992 Modest Pageant 169 Helen: Go to Tyrers and get some sweets. Bud: What sort? Helen: Oh—er—‘Misshapes’—the money's in me coat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † misshapeadj. Obsolete. = misshapen adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > not shapely or deformed unshapelyc1200 forcrookedc1305 deform1382 froward shapena1400 misshapena1400 deformedc1400 misshape1440 deformablec1450 disformatea1492 misshapeda1500 deformate?a1505 fashionless1581 unfashionable1597 shapeless1598 ill-proportioned1602 disformed1665 untrained1871 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 339 Myschape thynge yn kynde, monstruosus. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 7758 There met hym þis Mawhown þat was so mysshap. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). misshapev. transitive. To alter (a person) from his or her normal shape; to give a bad, ugly, or incorrect shape to; to deform; to distort, pervert, misrepresent. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > put out of shape [verb (transitive)] deformc1400 misshapec1450 misshapenc1450 misform1483 misfashiona1525 bring1530 misfigure1563 disjoint1638 dislocate1660 forshape1884 c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) 722 ‘I am but a daie in the yere A woman’..And tolde hym..For þat sho myschapen wasse. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 679 (MED) He..is no duerf by nature, but thus hath a damesell hym myschapen [Fr. latourna]. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 98 Oure..soulle..ys made to hys lykenesse, but yt was defoyled and darkyd and mysshape by synne. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 637/2 I myshappe, or bring out of facyon. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 742 in Shorter Poems (1967) 52 Bot sore I dred me..That Venus suld..In till sum bysnyng best transfigurit me. As in a bere, [etc.]..I traistit so for till haue bene myssape. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cix. 669 Such as mishape thinges by their inchauntments. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. v. sig. Q8 Whom..she does transforme..And horribly misshapes with vgly sightes. 1662 R. Brathwait Chimneys Scuffle 12 They mis-shape the Beauty of their features. 1682 J. Howe Self-ded. 134 They do strangely mishape Religion..that frame to themselves a Religion made up of..doubts and fears. 1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients viii. 49 Mishape me, if you please, into any Monstrous Form. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Picture in Poems (1864) 157 A thousand circlets spread And each mis~shape the other. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 436 If the distance the drops fall be not sufficiently great, and they reach the water in a semi-fluid state, the resistance of the water mis~shapes them. 1870 G. P. Belden Belden, White Chief xx. 159 The bottom of the wrapping would misshape its feet and legs. 1964 R. K. Narayan Gods, Demons & Others (1994) i. 44 Old age..misshapes a man and destroys intelligence and judgement. 1983 J. Jones Dostoevsky 244 It's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student, but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400adj.1440v.c1450 |
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