| 单词 |
unshaped |
| 释义 |
unˈshaped, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. ON. úskapaðr, Sw. oskapad, Da. uskabt.]
Not reduced or moulded into shape; imperfectly formed; left rude or rough. Freq. fig.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie 11 A sleue, vnshaped, and vnsowed. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. v. 8 Her speech is nothing, Yet the vnshaped vse of it doth moue The hearers to Collection. c1680P. Ayres Embl. Love (1906) 355 See how the bear industriously does frame, And bring in time to form, her unshaped young. 1730Bailey (fol.), Mola Carnea..is a spungy unshaped Substance, without Bones or Bowels. 1798Wordsw. P. Bell 296 All the unshaped half-human thoughts Which solitary Nature feeds. 1841Browning Pippa Passes ii. Poems (1905) 179/1 Shall to produce form out of unshaped stuff Be Art? 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun ii, He spoke..with the Tuscan rusticity of accent, and an unshaped sort of utterance.
Hence unˈshapedness.
1587Golding De Mornay x. 166 A certeine vnshapednesse; which is the cause of all mishapennesse. |
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