debruised
English
Etymology
Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French debruisier (“to shatter, break”). Compare bruise.
Adjective
debruised (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Surmounted by an ordinary.
- A lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.
- (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The lion of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they were debruised in token of his illegitimate birth.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “debruised”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)