deformare

deformare [CL] 1 to form, shape. etiam laicis in hiis gratia affluebat, excepto quod per se litteras atramento ~atos legere nesciebant Ad. Eyns. Hug. I 10 p. 32. 2 to deform, mar (esp. morally); cf. difformare. b (pr. ppl.) disfiguring. c (p. ppl. as sb. n.) blemish. non splendida ‥ argenti species turpiter ~atur Aldh. VirgP 9; matrona ‥ /‥ Christi famulam sermone procaci / deformare studet Id. VirgV 1920; devenustat, ~at, geatolhiwaþ GlH D 353; 10‥ ~atos, geatelod WW; hominem ‥ natura ‥ interiorem variis vitiorum maculis ~averat Gir. EH II 11; quod pater enormat baptismi forma reformat; / sed se deformat vendens quod gratia format Garl. Mor. Scol. 478; V. Will. 289 (v. defunctio).  b lepra ‥ signat mistice symoniam‥. nullus morbus est isto ‥ ad solvendum continuitatem et formam ~ancior Wycl. Sim. 61.  c c1340 nos ‥ qui ‥ tenemur errata corrigere et ~ata in melius reformare FormOx 170. 3 to foul. 1424 plures sunt canes in domo ~antes claustra Reg. Heref. 72.