efform

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English

Etymology

Latin effōrmō, from ex- + fōrmō.

Pronunciation

Verb

efform (third-person singular simple present efforms, present participle efforming, simple past and past participle efformed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To form; to shape.
    • 1668, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-seven Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, : Sermon II. Part II.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. , volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. ; and Richard Priestley, , published 1822, →OCLC, page 415:
      And they understand so little, that, 1. they thought God heard them not, unless they spake their prayers, at least, efforming their words within their lips; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “efform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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