shapen

[ shey-puh n ]

/ ˈʃeɪ pən /

having a designated shape (usually used in combination): a sprawling, ill-shapen building.

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1250–1300; Middle English; Old English -sceapen (only in compounds); orig. past participle of shape

They were born in sin and shapen in iniquity, and in sin did their mothers conceive them.
Flowers of Freethought|George W. Foote
Thus has poor mortality been beaten and shapen on the anvils of compulsion and exigency.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction|Arabella Kenealy
Grimhild says, "So it is shapen that thou must have this king and none else."
The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga)|Anonymous
The trivial questions I want to put could hardly be shapen in a letter so as to govern an answer that would satisfy my need.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. III (of 3)|George Eliot

We all of us know how small and apparently insignificant are the events by which the course of our lives is shapen.
That Boy Of Norcott's|Charles James Lever