a. (UN-1 7. Cf. ON. úskapligr (Sw. oskaplig, Norw. uskapleg) misshapen, etc.)
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 163. Ðe meshakele [is] of medeme fustane,… ðe corporeals sole, and unshapliche.
13[?]. Guy Warw. (A.), 7160. His bodi … is michel,… Fram þe nouel vpward vnschepliche.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 1099. Schouellefotede was that schalke … With schankez unschaply.
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), III. 1158. On-shaply þou art to see!
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 89. Our auncient rymers … many times made their meetres … of such vnshapely wordes as would allow no conuenient Cesure.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 113. It is an vnshapely body, very loose, all glandulous.
1645. Boate, Ireland’s Nat. Hist. (1652), 64. Things like Boats, but very unshapely, being nothing but square peeces of timber made hollow.
1752. Hume, Ess. on Original Contract, II. xii. (1777), I. 471. The people being commonly very rude builders,… it is natural to imagine, that their workmanship must be a little unshapely.
1802. Playfair, Illustr. Hutton. Th., 114. An immense mass of solid rock, naked and unshapely.
1874. J. Fiske, Cosmic Philos., I. ii. I. 26. An apparently-solid edifice, which fell into unshapely ruin at the first rude blast of criticism.
