forshape

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English forshapen, forschapen (“to transform”), from Old English forsċieppan, forsċeppan (“to transform”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraskappjan, 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. (transitive, obsolete) To put out of shape; distort; make misshapen; disfigure.