shapen

shap·en

 (shā′pən)
adj.
Having a definite specified shape. Often used in combination: an ill-shapen vase.
v. Archaic
A past participle of shape.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

shapen

(ˈʃeɪpən)
adj
an archaic variant of -shaped
vb (tr)
obsolete to shape
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
References in classic literature ?
He seemed therefore confident, that, instead of reason we were only possessed of some quality fitted to increase our natural vices; as the reflection from a troubled stream returns the image of an ill shapen body, not only larger but more distorted."
He was a thin-faced, yellow-haired youth, rather above the middle size, comely and well shapen, with straight, lithe figure and eager, boyish features.
The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardor in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardor of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly.
Samuel Rutherford was right to complain."We have all shapen Christ but too narrow and too short and formed conceptions of his love in our conceit very unworthy of it.
What would be a major concern now is how it would be used to shapen the general election in a more positive way without causing unnecessary tension.
Other elements of Lear's speech evoke the architecture and location of Chaucer's House of Rumour, which is "shapen lyk a cage" (3.1985)--more precisely, a bird cage.
And hende Nicholas and Alisoun Acorded been to this conclusioun, That Nicholas shal shapen hym a wyle And this sely jalous housbounde to bigyle.
The 50kg roughly shapen bar of pure silver has been brought ashore on the island of Madagascar.
Moreover, this was still too close to shapen. Though the respect for dead grieving year was technically over nine months ago, there is still mourning for m,e.
In addition to writing plays and performing in them, he wrote for numerous publications, belonged to Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, and wrote and delivered the class poem, which characterizes his alma mater as "a friend" and proclaims, somewhat awkwardly: "You take the crude stuff and you fashion it free, / Till shapen and moulded you send forth your men" (58).
And there are some striking, moderately long pieces in which Brathwaite shows his ability to shape a wonderful image: "Slowly the white dream wrestles to life / hands shapen the salt and the foreign cornfields / the cold flesh kneaded by fingers / is ready for the charcoal for the black wife // of heat the years of green sleeping in the volcano."