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(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.
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Forshape means (transitive, obsolete) To metamorphose; change the shape of; transform..
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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.
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