Crossword clues for shapen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shape \Shape\ (sh[=a]p), v. t. [imp. Shaped (sh[=a]pt); p. p. Shaped or Shapen (sh[=a]p"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Shaping.] [OE. shapen, schapen, AS. sceapian. The p. p. shapen is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. sceapen. See Shape, n.]
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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
I was shapen in iniquity.
--Ps. li. 5.Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
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To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
To the stream, when neither friends, nor force, Nor speed nor art avail, he shapes his course.
--Denham.Charmed by their eyes, their manners I acquire, And shape my foolishness to their desire.
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To imagine; to conceive; to call forth (ideas). [archaic]
Oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not.
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To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
When shapen was all this conspiracy, From point to point.
--Chaucer.Shaping machine. (Mach.) Same as Shaper.
To shape one's self, to prepare; to make ready. [Obs.]
I will early shape me therefor.
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context rare English) To shape, form. Etymology 2
(context archaic English) shaped. v
(context obsolete English) (past participle of shape English)
Usage examples of "shapen".
It has sometimes in the end of words a sound obscure, and scarcely perceptible, as open, shapen, shotten, thistle, participle, metre, lucre.
And if so be thou wilt do me no grace, Or if my destiny be shapen so That I shall needes have one of them two, So send me him that most desireth me.
Against thee, and thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou might est be justified when thou speak- est, and be clear when thou judgest Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
And over all this, to slay me utterly, Love hath his fiery dart so brenningly* *burningly Y-sticked through my true careful heart, That shapen was my death erst than my shert.
Whan shapen was al hir conspiracie Fro point to point, how that his lecherie Parfourned sholde been ful subtilly, (As ye shul heere it after openly) Hoom gooth the cherl, that highte Claudius.
And if so be my destynee be shapen By eterne word to dyen in prisoun, Of oure lynage have som compassioun, That is so lowe ybroght by tirannye.
Ye goon to Caunterbury, God yow speede- The blisful martir quite yow youre meede- And wel I woot, as ye goon by the weye, Ye shapen yow to talen and to pleye, For trewely, confort ne myrthe is noon To ride by the weye doumb as stoon, And therfore wol I maken yow disport, As I seyde erst, and doon yow som confort.