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bursten, ppl. a.|ˈbɜːst(ə)n|
[Obs. pa. pple. of burst v.; like many other strong pples. in -en, it is still sometimes used attrib., esp. in poetical or rhetorical language.]
= burst ppl. a.
c1440Anc. Cookery in Housh. Ord. (1790) 462 Take qwete streyned, that is for to say brosten. c1440Promp. Parv. 53 Brostyn man, herniosus. 1544Phaër Regim. Lyfe (1560) U iij b, A drynke for one that is brusten. c1620Chapman Batrachom. Ep. Ded. (1858) 38 Even bursten profusion. 1638G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 44 In prisons, Gentlemen, and bursten Citizens meet as upon the Exchange. 1712Steele Spect. No. 444 ⁋4 A Doctor for the Cure of bursten Children. 1762tr. Duhamel's Husb. iii. xii. (ed. 2) 414 All rotten or bursten grapes. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. (1858) 111 Now grown quite corpulent, bursten, superfluous. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 544 The worn-out and bursten condition of the old bottles.
†b. Comb., as bursten-bellied, bursten-gutted. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny II. 263 To cure those that be bursten bellied. 1661K. W. Conf. Charact. (1860) 47 A..clubfooted burstengutted, longneck't..hircocerous. a1722Lisle Husb. 477 Whether it was usual for pigs to be bursten-bellied. |