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debruised en · ADJ

Etymology

See debruise. Compare Old French debruisier (“to shatter, break”). Compare bruise.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Surmounted by an ordinary (or something else).
    • Serpent, embowed, the head debruised, or surmounted of the tail; also blazoned, […] 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 5:
    • 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. 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter II, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
    • A lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it.