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English
Adjective
mishapen (comparative more mishapen, superlative most mishapen)
- Obsolete form of misshapen.
1583 May 1, Phillip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses: Contayning a Discoverie, or Briefe Summarie of Such Notable Vices and Imperfections, as Now Raigne in Many Christian Countreyes of the Worlde: , London: Richard Iones, →OCLC, signature Q.ij., verso:Hath not dame Nature her ſelfe denied vnto vs her operation, in ſending fooꝛth aboꝛtiues, vntimely births, vggleſome monſters and fearfull miſhapen Creatures of God are angrie with vs and thꝛeaten vs with deſtruction, and yet we are nothing at all amẽded (alas) that ſhal become of vs?
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 18, column 2:This miſhapen knaue; / His Mother was a Witch, […]
1807, , chapter II, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. , volume I, London: J F Hughes, , →OCLC, pages 31–32:e therefore hastened on, and conducted Carlstadt to the spot he had recently quitted, and discovered to him a rude mishapen entrance to a flight of steps, which appeared as conducting ones to some dwelling emboweled in the earth.