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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We all of us know how small and apparently insignificant are the events by which the course of our lives is shapen.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
For thee was a house built ere thou wert born, For thee was a mold shapen ere thou of thy mother camest.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
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 Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
Her neck, shoulders, and all her body and lower limbs are reasonably well shapen; all her limbs are well set and unmaimed; and nought is amiss so far as a man may see.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
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
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