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prerupt, a. rare.|prɪˈrʌpt|
Also 7 præ-
[ad. L. prærupt-us broken or torn off, steep, abrupt, rash, pa. pple. of prærumpĕre to break off before (the point), f. præ, pre- A. 4 c + rumpĕre to break.]
1. Broken off before the end, or (in quot.) having the beginning broken off or lost.
1600Holland Livy xli. 1096 The beginning of this booke, and the greater part thereof immediatly ensuing, is lost..thus it sheweth a prærupt and broken front as ye see.
2. Abruptly broken away; precipitous; = abrupt a. 4.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1282 Prerupt and craggy rocks. 1819Blackw. Mag. IV. 729 Yon craigs prerupt, which o'er the murky glare Of crimsoned smoke, their gloomy ledges shoot. 1831J. Wilson Unimore vii. 254 Disjoined with horrid chasms prerupt.
3. Sudden, unexpected; = abrupt a. 3.
1831Scott Ct. Rob. Intr., Transferring the said calumnious reports to my ears in a prerupt and unseemly manner. |