† confractionn.
Obsolete.
Breaking into small fragments; smashing, smash; crushing.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > breaking into pieces or shattering
shiveringc1400
truncheoning1477
upbreaking1493
confraction?1541
refraction1578
splinting1598
diffraction1654
hatchet work1697
shattering1748
exploding1791
smash1808
explosion1811
splintering1815
blasting1824
shatterment1841
scatteration1880
smashing1886
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Nij The confraction that than after ensue in the membres.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Hosea xiii. 13 He shal not stand the confraction of the children.
1646 J. Whitaker Danger of Greatnesse 26 Such a confraction..as shivers it all in pieces.
1650 Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers 46 To fall with the greater confraction.
1872 W. E. Scudamore Notitia Eucharistica 585 The first supposed allusion to [the Commixture] occurs in the Expositio Brevis ascribed to S. Germanus of Paris ( a.d. 555)..‘The Confraction and Commixture of the Body of the Lord’.
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