burstenadj.
/ˈbəːst(ə)n/ = burst adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [adjective] > hernia or rupture
hernious1398
limb-broken1398
film-brokea1400
burstenc1440
broken-lended1483
rimburst1558
burst1574
bursten-gutted1601
broken-bellied1634
gut-foundered1647
ruptured1723
hernial1738
herniary1753
herniated1879
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > bursting, shattering, or breaking into pieces > burst
brussena1413
burstenc1440
withbrast1448
bursted1527
dirupt1531
ruptured1596
disrupt1736
disrupted1819
burst1824
disruptured1838
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to bursting
big?1541
with child1548
swelling1594
pent1597
bursten?1624
strutted1648
burstened1697
stretcheda1711
bursting1847
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [adjective] > going bankrupt > bankrupt
decoct1529
bankrupt1565
bankruptlike1625
cracked1632
bursten1638
bankrupted1649
crazy1700
crazed1732
busted1836
quisby1853
sold-out1859
bung1948
bust1964
c1440 Anc. Cookery in Housh. Ord. (1790) 462 Take qwete streyned, that is for to say brosten.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 53 Brostyn man, herniosus.
1544 T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1560) U iij b A drynke for one that is brusten.
?1624 G. Chapman in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. sig. ¶4 Euen bursten profusion.
1638 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison (rev. ed.) 44 In prisons, Gentlemen, and bursten Citizens meet as upon the Exchange.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 444. ⁋4 A Doctor for the Cure of bursten Children.
1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry iii. xii. 417 All rotten or bursten grapes.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. iii. 69 Now grown quite corpulent, bursten, superfluous.
1883 F. W. Farrar Life St. Paul (new ed.) ix. xxxiv. 544 The worn-out and bursten [1879: burst] condition of the old bottles.
Compounds
† bursten-bellied, bursten-gutted. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [adjective] > hernia or rupture
hernious1398
limb-broken1398
film-brokea1400
burstenc1440
broken-lended1483
rimburst1558
burst1574
bursten-gutted1601
broken-bellied1634
gut-foundered1647
ruptured1723
hernial1738
herniary1753
herniated1879
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 263 To cure those that be bursten bellied.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. v. 41 Those who are bursen bellied, or have ruptures.
1661 K. W. Confused Characters 51 A..club footed, burstengutted, longneck't..Hircocerous.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 477 Whether it was usual for pigs to be bursten-bellied.
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