(by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
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[…] the Poets pen turnes them to ſhapes, […]
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c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 159, column 1:
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[…] he was perfectly well turned for the occupations of trade and commerce.
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1711 July 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 108; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 85:
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His limbs how turn’d! how broad his ſhoulders ſpread!
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1725, Homer, “Book VIII”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 145, line 148: