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breaden en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.? Proto-Germanic *braudą Proto-West Germanic *braud Old English brēad Middle English bred English bread English -en English breaden From bread + -en (“made of, consisting of”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Made of bread (in the context of the Eucharist).
    • The Worship of the Host may be called idolatry, being the worship of bread and wine, of a breaden and a winemade god! 1840, John Rogers, Anti-Popery:
    • We have no objection to their manufacturing and eating their breaden God, if they are prevented from roasting and destroying us. 1827, Joseph Ivimey, Pilgrims of the Nineteenth Century, page 100:
    • […] — of working the stupendous miracle of making Christ manifest in a piece of bread or a drop of wine; and, if that bread or wine be infinitesimally divided, of making as many breaden or wine Christs as there are particles of bread or drops of wine! 1862, Edward Harper, Rome, Antichrist, and the Papacy, page 88: