Forshape Definition
verb
(UK dialectal) To metamorphose; change the shape of; transform.
Unkindelich he was transformed, That he which erst a man was formed, Into a woman was forshape[n]. ― Gower.
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Origin of Forshape
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From Middle English forshapen, forschapen (“to transform”), from Old English forscapan (“to transform”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *skapjaną, equivalent to for- + shape. Cognate with German verschaffen (“to provide, supply, furnish”), Swedish förskapa (“to cut out”).
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