fashionableness (fashonablnes)

state or quality of being fashionable; modish elegance; conformity to the prevailing custom or style, especially in dre . These are the hard tasks of a Christian, worthy of our sweat, worthy of our rejoycing, all which that Babylonish religion shifteth off with a carele fashionablene e , as if it had not to do with the soul. Bp . Hall , Epistles, iii. 3. fashionably (fash'on-a-bli), adv . In a manner accordant with fashion, custom, or prevailing practice; with modish elegance: as, to dre fashionably . He must at length die dully of old age at home, when here he might so fashionably and genteelly have been duelled or fluxed into another world. South , Sermons, II. 215. A mind Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, But now and then perhaps a feeble ray Of distant wisdom shoots acro his way. Add is on, Spectator, No. 2. Out of fashion, not in keeping with prevailing modes or practices. = Syn. 1 and 2. Form, Shape , etc. (see figure ); able . Dekker . cut, appearance, cast. - 4. Manner , Practice , etc. See cus- tom.-5. Conventionality, style. fashion1 (fash'on), v . t . [ fashion1 , n.] 1. To form; give shape or figure to; mold: as, to fashion toys. That is inough for me, seeking but to fashion an art, & not to finish it. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 104. Private repentance they said must appear by every man's fashioning his own life contrary unto the customs and orders of this present world. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., viii. Cowper, Hope, 1. 92. fashion alt (fash'on-al), a . [ fashion1 + -al.] Same as fashionable . Donne. fashion a tet (fash'on-at), a. Same as fashion- fashioner (fash'on-er), n. 1. One who fash- ions, forms, or gives shape to anything. In whiche act, as the man is principall doer and fash- ioner , so is the womanne but the matier and sufferer. J. Udall , On Cor. xxx i. 2t. A modiste. Is a bugle-maker a lawful calling? or the confect-makers?. or your French fashioner ? B. Jonson , Bartholomew Fair, v. 3. The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dre es were brought home. Scott . Shall the clay say to him that fashion eth it, What makest fashioning-needle (fash'on-ing-ne"dl), n. One thou? Isa. xlv. 9. In some points it [English law) has been fashioned to suit our feelings; in others, it has gradually fashioned our feelings to suit itself. Macaulay , Warren Hastings, The country's flinty face, Like wax, their fashioning skill betrays. Emerson , Monadnoc. 2. To fit; adapt; accommodate. Lawes ought to be fashioned unto the manners and con- ditions of the people to whom they are ment. Spenser, State of Ireland. of the needles in a knitting-machine which lift loops from some of the bearded needles and transfer them to others, in order to widen or narrow the work.