transitive. To shape, form, direct (a person, a person's life, thoughts, actions, etc.); to discipline, train (a person, animal, one's tongue…

transitive (in passive). Chiefly figurative. To be made of a specified substance or in a specified way. Cf. mettle, n. 1. Obsolete.

transitive. To imbue with a particular spirit, quality, or attribute. Often in passive, with with or by. rare after 18th cent.