单词 | misshaped |
释义 | misshapedadj. Misshapen, deformed. Also: that has been badly or incorrectly shaped. 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 a1500 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Oriel) (1869) B. vii. 95 Myschappid [c1400 Laud Þere is moo mysshape peple amonge þise beggeres, Þan of alle maner men þat on þis molde walketh]. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxvii. 192 His great body, Which was mishaped ful right wonderly. 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Kivv For be she neuer so foule a pece, misshaped, crokebacked, vntydy, vncomely, withered, misfauored. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. C3 Bleare-eyde, mishapt, vntoward, impious. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. ii. 170 My mis-shap'd Trunke, that beares this Head. View more context for this quotation 1685 J. Bunyan Disc. Pharisee & Publicane 51 This misplacing of Gods Laws, cannot..but produce mis-shaped, and misplaced Obedience. 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 12 Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear, Consider'd singly, or beheld too near. 1826 M. Shelley Last Man III. iv. 114 I threw open the window, and looked on the cold, waning, ghastly, misshaped circle on high. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlviii. 270 Did you ever see anything so ugly as that hand—a mis-shaped monster, isn't he? 1919 J. Payne Flower o' Thorn 119 Its smiling visage lowers, clay-coloured, harsh, misshaped, Austere. 1991 Personal Computer World Feb. 135/1 Most of today's mice are misshaped and so the number of ‘mouse fatigue’ cases is increasing. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] deformityc1440 disformitya1513 informity1583 misshapenness1587 misshapedness1610 pravity1647 misshapement1653 malconformation1776 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xxii. xix. 900 A statuary..can mold, or cast it [i.e. a statue] new..without all the former miss-shapednesse. 1715 tr. Cicero Tusculan Disputations iv. 156 Mishapedness of Members, Distortion, and Deformity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1500 |
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