Warped

ppl. a. [f. WARP v. + -ED¹.]

  1.  Bent, contorted, or twisted out of shape.

c. 1460.  Promp. Parv. (Winch.), 517/1. Warpyd, or auylonge.

a. 1547.  Surrey, Æneid, II. 229. The god that they by sea had brought In warped keles [L. curvis carinis].

1589.  [? Lyly], Pappe w. Hatchet, B iiij. Ile make his braines so hot, that they shall … rattle in his warpt skull, like pepper in a dride bladder.

1604.  Marston, Malcontent, V. iii. H 2 b. Hauing a red beard and a paire of warpt legges.

1706.  E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 72. A warp’d Piece of Plank.

1798.  Coleridge, Anc. Mar., VII. iv. The planks look warp’d.

1813.  Scott, Rokeby, II. xiv. Now to the oak’s warped roots he clings.

1876.  Miss Broughton, Joan, II. I. xxx. 254. Under the warped door, through the chinks and gaps of the window-frames, comes the iced blast.

1888.  Jacobi, Printers’ Vocab., Warped cut, woodcuts twisted through dampness, generally caused by improper cleansing or storing.

  fig.  1602.  Dekker, Satirom., I 4. Were thy warpt soule put in a new molde, Ide weare thee as a Iewell set in golde.

1771.  Smollett, Humphry Cl., To Dr. Lewis, 2 June. A good sort of a man, though most ridiculously warped in his political principles.

1830.  D’Israeli, Chas. I., III. iv. 48. The warped suggestions of the writer are perpetually supplying the absence of all real knowledge.

1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), IV. 245. He has resorted to … dishonesty and falsehood, and become warped and distorted.

  b.  Mining. (See quot.)

1886.  J. Barrowman, Sc. Mining Terms, 70. Warped, irregularly bedded, or plicated.

  2.  That has cast its young prematurely.

a. 1722.  Lisle, Husb. (1757), 283. The warped cows.

  3.  Enriched with alluvial warp.

1799.  A. Young, Agric. Lincoln., 284. At Reeveness warped land has sold for £100 an acre.

1842.  C. W. Johnson, Farmer’s Encycl., 1229. Warped lands are found capable of growing most kinds of crops in great plenty.

1878.  A. C. Ramsay, Phys. Geog., xxxiii. 577. The banks of the Humber, where the broad warped meadows, won from the sea by nature and art, lie many feet below the tide at flood.