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debruise, v.|dɪˈbruːz|
Forms: 3–8 debruse, 4 debrise, 7– debruise.
[a. ONF. debruisier, debrusier = OF. debrisier, to break down or in pieces, crush, f. de- (de- I. 1) + brisier to break.]
†1. trans. To break down, break in pieces, crush, smash. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 298 Hii..stenede hym wyþ stones As me stenede Seynt Steuene, and debrusede ys bones. a1300Fragm. Pop. Sc. (Wright) 178 Tho oure Louerd..debrusede helle ȝates. 1382Wyclif Ezek. xxxiv. 27 Whan I shal debrise the chaynes of her ȝoc. 1618M. Dalton Countrey Justice 195 Though it were lawfull to make the trenches, and to debruse the Nusans [a Weare on the Trent].
†b. intr. To be dashed to pieces. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 288 Þe flor to brac vnder hem..And hii velle and debrusede somme anon to deþe. Ibid. 537 He hupte & debrusede, & deide in an stounde.
2. Her. (trans.) To cross (a charge, esp. an animal) with an ordinary so as partially to hide it, and as it were press it down; usually in pa. pple. debruised; also said of a serpent so bent or ‘folded’ that its head or tail is partly covered by its body. counter-debruised: see quot. 1830.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 114 His fielde is de Argent, a Lyon salient Gules, debrused with a Barre de Azure. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry ii. i. 10 Composed of the two bodies of trees laid crosse each other: but then one must Debruse and bear down the other. 1830Robson Brit. Herald III. Gloss., Counter-debruised, when either the head or tail of a serpent in the bowing or embowing, is turned under, in a contrary direction the one to the other. 1848Macaulay Hist. Engl. I. 252 He..exhibited on his escutcheon the lions of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister under which, according to the law of heraldry, they were debruised in token of his illegitimate birth. |