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From: gcide - The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Shape \Shape\ (sh[=a]p), v. t. [imp. {Shaped} (sh[=a]pt); p. p.
   {Shaped} or {Shapen} (sh[=a]p"'n); p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Shaping}.] [OE. shapen, schapen, AS. sceapian. The p. p.
   shapen is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan,
   sceppan, p. p. sceapen. See {Shape}, n.]
   1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a
      particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
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            I was shapen in iniquity.             --Ps. li. 5.
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            Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
                                                  --Prior.
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   2. To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct;
      as, to shape the course of a vessel.
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            To the stream, when neither friends, nor force,
            Nor speed nor art avail, he shapes his course.
                                                  --Denham.
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            Charmed by their eyes, their manners I acquire,
            And shape my foolishness to their desire. --Prior.
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   3. To imagine; to conceive; to call forth (ideas). [archaic]
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            Oft my jealousy
            Shapes faults that are not.           --Shak.
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   4. To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
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            When shapen was all this conspiracy,
            From point to point.                  --Chaucer.
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   {Shaping machine}. (Mach.) Same as {Shaper}.

   {To shape one's self}, to prepare; to make ready. [Obs.]
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            I will early shape me therefor.       --Chaucer.
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From: wn - WordNet (r) 2.0
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shaped
     adj 1: shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a
            pliable mass (as by work or effort); "a shaped
            handgrip"; "the molded steel plates"; "the wrought
            silver bracelet" [syn: {molded}, {wrought}]
     2: having the shape of; "a square shaped playing field"
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From: moby-thes - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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75 Moby Thesaurus words for "shaped":
   arranged, assembled, blueprinted, built, calculated, cast, charted,
   constructed, contrived, crafted, created, custom, custom-built,
   custom-made, designed, devised, extracted, fabricated, fashioned,
   figured, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade,
   harvested, homemade, homespun, in the works, machine-made,
   machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, methodized,
   milled, mined, molded, on the agenda, on the anvil,
   on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis,
   organized, planned, plotted, prefab, prefabricated, processed,
   projected, put together, raised, rationalized, ready-for-wear,
   ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined,
   scheduled, schematized, set, smelted, strategetic, strategic,
   sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, well-built, well-constructed,
   well-made, worked out




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