amorphy

amorphy

English

Etymology

a- +‎ -morphy

Noun

amorphy (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) shapelessness
   • 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Works:

     […] as mankind is now disposed, he receives much greater advantage by being diverted than instructed, his epidemical diseases being fastidiosity, amorphy, and oscitation; whereas, in the present universal empire of wit and learning, there seems but little matter left for instruction.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for amorphy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)