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Definition of Misshape
1. v. t. To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.
Definition of Misshape
1. Verb. To shape badly or incorrectly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misshape
1. to shape badly [v -SHAPED, -SHAPEN, -SHAPING, -SHAPES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misshape
Literary usage of Misshape
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection by Walter Hilton (1908)
"CHAPTER XI How Men that abide and live in Sin, misshape themselves into the
likeness of divers Beasts, ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"21 (part 3). + G. mistel-drossel, a mistle-thrush ; from miste!, mistletoe, and
drossel, a thrush. See Mistletoe and Thrush. misshape, to shape amiss. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xviii. misshape ... of them . . . did sceme to looke
askew, That her misshape much helpt. ..."
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