![]() ![]() ![]() The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc. The make or form of anything the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure pattern, model as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc. Webster Dictionary Rate this definition: 4.0 / 3 votes The value of the labour employed about one parcel of silver more than another, makes a difference in their price and thus fashioned plate sells for more than its weight. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing. It better fits my blood to be disdained of all, than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any. Was fashion’d to much honour from his cradle. Is fashion’d for the journey, dull and heavy. Yourselves thereto, according to occasion. Ne do, I doubt, but that ye well can fashion Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people to whom they are meant, and not to be imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right. Here the loud hammer fashions female toys Įach trinket that adorns the modern dame,įirst to these little artists ow’d its frame. How could this noble fabrick be design’d,Īnd fashion’d, by a maker brute and blind?Īnd raise a beauteous world of such extent? Inability will every one find in himself, who shall go about to fashion in his understanding any simple idea, not received by his senses from external objects, or by reflection from the operations of his mind about them. The rib he form’d, and fashion’d with his hands: The graves of the rebellious generations were already fashioned in the clouds, which soon after should swallow up all living creatures. Send him but hither, and I’ll fashion him.ĭid not he that made me in the womb, make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? He loves me well, and I have giv’n him reasons William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew.Įtymology: façonner, French, from the noun. His horse is possest with the glanders, infected with the fashions, and full of windgalls. ![]() The farcy a distemper in horses the horses leprosy. I scorn thee, and thy fashion, peevish boy. It is strange that men of fashion, and gentlemen, should so grosly belie their own knowledge. It is used in a sense below that of quality. His panegyricks were bestowed only on such persons as he had familiarly known, and only at such times as others cease to praise, when out of power, or out of fashion. General approbation mode.Ī young gentleman accommodates himself to the innocent diversions in fashion. Manner imitated from another way established by precedent. Why truly, wife, it was not easily reconciled to the common method but then it was the fashion to do such things. Though the truth of this hath been universally acknowledged, yet because the fashion of the age is to call every thing into question, it will be requisite to satisfy mens reason about it. Zelmane again, with great admiration, begun to speak of him asking whether it were the fashion or no, in Arcadia, that shepherds should perform such valorous enterprizes. The fineness of the gold, the chargeful fashion. How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, Custom operating upon dress, or any domestick ornaments. The commissioners either pulled down or defaced all images in churches and that in such unseasonable and unseasoned fashion, as if it had been done in hostility against them. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.Īnd he will, after his sour fashion, tell you Perforce against all checks, rebukes, and manners, You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred only, I do not like the fashion of your garments. The fashion of his countenance was altered. They pretend themselves grieved at our solemnities in erecting churches, at their form and fashion, at the stateliness of them and costliness, and at the opinion which we have of them. Form make state of any thing with regard to its outward appearance. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: façon, French facies, Latin. ![]()
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