Crossword clues for shaped
shaped
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
Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape. v
(en-past of: shape)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "shaped".
Our adversaries do not deny that even here there is a system of law and penalty: and surely we cannot in justice blame a dominion which awards to every one his due, where virtue has its honour, and vice comes to its fitting shame, in which there are not merely representations of the gods, but the gods themselves, watchers from above, and--as we read--easily rebutting human reproaches, since they lead all things in order from a beginning to an end, allotting to each human being, as life follows life, a fortune shaped to all that has preceded--the destiny which, to those that do not penetrate it, becomes the matter of boorish insolence upon things divine.
For some unknown purpose mechs had furrowed and shaped the rough hillsides into tight, angular sheets and oblique ramps.
This movement caused the artillerists to suspend their own, and the lugger had fairly come within a mile of the cliffs, ere she lazily turned aside again, and shaped her course once more in the direction of the entrance of the Canal.
She recognized star shaped astrocytes, and the presence of macro phages--the cleanup crew, whose function is to tidy up after infection.
The girls were fascinated by the bright orange and white and the red and yellow conical shaped banksia flowers.
They were shaped like bladeless scissors, and the Constable unfolded them and carefully pinched them over his bulbous nose.
It is only during gastrulation, after the egg has divided and redivided many times and shaped itself into a hollow ball of cells called a blastula, that the development of organs, limbs and other body parts begins.
A swarm of meter-long boomerang shaped metallic objects consumed the aircraft and began ripping it apart.
The archbishop brandished something small and squirrel shaped impaled upon a stick.
She found brownwort, with its loose spike of strangely shaped brown flowers, in a damp and shady place near the water, and she collected the whole plants to make into a wash, for their skin-healing and itch-relieving properties.
The cells, instead of being filled with homogeneous purple fluid, now contain variously shaped masses of purple matter, suspended in a colourless or almost colourless fluid.
It was a beautiful machine, made of thick magnalium, about thirtytwo feet long, shaped like a U.
No, Manesh told himself, this is definitely not shaped like a boat but like .
I have been inside many another masjid, and in every one that niche is so shaped.
I merely come forward as an impressionist, and I write purposely the impression of my first Mensur, because I believe that first impressions are more true and useful than opinions blunted by intercourse, or shaped by influence.