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shape external or visible form; †sexual organs OE.; guise XVI; form or kind of structure XVII. orig. OE. ġesċeap creation, creature, form, pudendum, decree, destiny, corr. to OS. giskapu pl. creatures, decrees, ON. skap condition, pl. fate; f. Gmc. *skap- base of the vb.
So shape vb. †create; fashion, form. Early ME. new formation on the pp., repl. orig. OE. *sċ(i)eppan, corr. to OS. *giskeppian, Goth. gaskapjan; f. Gmc. *skap- create, fashion; first established as a wk. vb. XVI; the OE. pp. survives chiefly in misshapen. shapeless XIII. shapely †fit, suitable; well-shaped. XIV (see -LY1).

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