[UN-2 4.] trans. To divest of (a special) form; to make formless. Also absol.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., II. (1626), 35. How great our act! how is our powre display’d! Vnform’d a Woman, and a Goddesse made.
1704. De Foe, Hymn Victory, xvi.
| He never form’d a proper Scheme, | |
| But they unform’d it all again. |
a. 1822. Shelley, in Medwin, Life, II. 169. It was easier to form, than unform or reform.
1876. Gladstone, in Contemp. Rev., June, 12. It has formed Christian nations; or at least, has not un-formed them.
1882. Pall Mall G., 14 June, 5/1. It unforms his style, and produces scrappy … sentences.
