fashionest

Verb

fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)

1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
   • I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
   • Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC
3. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
   • Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
4. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
   • Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion feet.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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