unˈshaped, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. ON. {uacu}skapaðr, Sw. oskapad, Da. uskabt.]
Not reduced or moulded into shape; imperfectly formed; left rude or rough. Freq. fig.
| 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie 11 A sleue, vnshaped, and vnsowed. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iv. v. 8 Her speech is nothing, Yet the vnshaped vse of it doth moue The hearers to Collection. c 1680 P. Ayres Embl. Love (1906) 355 See how the bear industriously does frame, And bring in time to form, her unshaped young. 1730 Bailey (fol.), Mola Carnea..is a spungy unshaped Substance, without Bones or Bowels. 1798 Wordsw. P. Bell 296 All the unshaped half-human thoughts Which solitary Nature feeds. 1841 Browning Pippa Passes ii. Poems (1905) 179/1 Shall to produce form out of unshaped stuff Be Art? 1860 Hawthorne Marb. Faun ii, He spoke..with the Tuscan rusticity of accent, and an unshaped sort of utterance. |
Hence unˈshapedness.
| 1587 Golding De Mornay x. 166 A certeine vnshapednesse; which is the cause of all mishapennesse. |