forshape
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English
Etymology
From Middle English forshapen, forschapen (“to transform”), from Old English forsċieppan, forsċeppan (“to transform”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *skapjaną, equivalent to for- + shape. Cognate with German verschaffen (“to provide, supply, furnish”), Swedish förskapa (“to cut out”).
Verb
forshape (third-person singular simple present forshapes, present participle forshaping, simple past forshaped, past participle forshaped or forshapen)
- (transitive, obsolete) To metamorphose; change the shape of; transform.
- late 14th century, John Gower, Confessio Amantis
- Unkindelich he was transformed,
That he which erst a man was formed,
Into a woman was forshape,
That was to him an angry jape.
- Unkindelich he was transformed,
- late 14th century, John Gower, Confessio Amantis
- (transitive, obsolete) To put out of shape; distort; make misshapen; disfigure.