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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They carve bowls and spoons of stone and bone, and their heraldic totem poles are cleverly shapen, however grotesque they may be.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian
But at night his dreams were not upon wars nor shapen blades but upon Fafnir the Dragon.
From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy
The Psalmist says, “I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert
I would have thee make a sword, a sword that will be mightier and better shapen than any sword in the world.
From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy
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)
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