shapen
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of shapen
1250–1300; Middle English; Old English -sceapen (only in compounds); originally past participle of shape
Example Sentences
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No one now uses he spake, and he drave, instead of he spoke, and he drove; holpen is replaced by helped; holden by held; shapen by shaped.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
Little Alice died last year—the grave is shapen Like a snowball, in the rime.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
From behind, the geranium scarlet was intense, one saw the careful, curiously cut backs of the shapen boleros, poppy-red, edged with mauve-purple and green, and the white of the shirt just showing at the waist.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
In similar fashion the Dominican brother is made to say: “Wyde wyndowes y-wrought, y-wryten ful thikke, Shynen with shapen sheldes.”
From Stained Glass Tours in England by Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock
As shapen in iniquity, No good by nature can I see; My heart can never serve Thee right, In folly it is sunken quite.
From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Gerhardt, Paul
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