bruisedadj.

Brit.

/bruːzd/, U.S.

/bruzd/

Forms: see bruise v. and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bruise v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < bruise v. + -ed suffix¹.With bruisedness n. at Derivatives compare Old English gebrȳsednes bruising, crushing ( < gebrȳsed , past participle of brȳsan (see bruise v.) + -ness suffix).

1. Esp. of a foodstuff: (partially) ground or broken down by a pestle, millstone, or other implement; pounded, crushed.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > grinding or pounding > [adjective] > ground

poundedOE

bruiseda1382

brayed1382

groundenc1386

ystampeda1425

ybraidc1430

brayded1561

stamped1600

grinded1613

contrited1640

well grinded1651

beaten1666

comminuted1725

contunding1739

ground1765

beat1793

kibbled1826

machine-ground1862

ground-up1897

mortarized1929

micronized1940

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. ii. 16 Apart of þe brysde corn [L. farris fracti].

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 679 Bresed whete & bresis longe.

1546 J. Bale First Examinacyon A. Askewe f. 3 The lorde hath syfted that howse of Israel (as broused corne in a syffe) amonge all other nacyons.

1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 519 A farthingwoorth of bruised Licoras.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 911 The bruised seede and storax mixed together, and the fumes thereof taken being cast on quicke coales..will soone ease the continuall headach.

?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 652 Bruised nettles to his nostrills..stayed the bleeding.

1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. O3^v Then put into the Liquor some bruis'd Ginger and Pepper.

1767 A. Shackleford Mod. Art Cookery Improved 124 Melt a pound of butter, with an anchovy bruised, a blade or two of mace, the body of a crab or lobster bruised, a little catchup [etc.].

1837 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 6 ii. 962 This machine is employed principally in Nepal for making chúra, or..bruised rice,..when the people are travelling.

1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. x. 240 Reading Sauce,..walnut pickle..shalots..Indian soy..bruised ginger [etc.]

1908 E. W. Lucas Pract. Pharmacy (ed. 2) 304 A strong decoction, prepared by exhausting the coarsely bruised bark in boiling water.

1959 Home Encycl. 90 A spray of bruised elder hung up in a larder will prevent flies settling.

2011 P. Dundas Cooking without Recipes 22 With a pestle and mortar, you can have freshly bruised and cracked peppercorns to pep and draw out flavour in any dish.

a. Of a person, animal, or body part: injured, battered, or crushed by a heavy weight or blow. Now usually: having or covered with a bruise or bruises.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded

unsoundc1330

wounded1382

bruiseda1400

offended1440

sauciate1509

breached1547

vulnerated1598

interwounding1599

sauciated1657

struck1809

traumatized1935

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > bruised

bruiseda1400

surbateda1425

pounced?a1563

black and blue1568

squat1600

mauled1690

mourning1709

contused1761

stubbed1890

stone-bruised1909

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 52 Anoynte þe membre þat is brosid..& caste aboue a poudre maad of þe seed of mirtilles, & bynde it softly.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxvii. l. 94 A ful wery and A-brosed Manne.

1547 J. Bale Lattre Examinacyon A. Askewe f. 49 For Anguysh and payne of her broken ioyntes and broused armes and eyes, she curseth not the tyme that euer she was borne.

a1610 N. Pownall Young Divines Apologie (1612) 107 A wounded spirit in a bruised, and broken bodie, who can beare?

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Seton, a rowell; or the rowelling, or roping of a bruised or strained horse.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 420/2 The Terebellum..an Instrument to take up broken or bruised Skulls.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vi. 82 Like an old invalid soldier out of the wars, maim'd, bruis'd, sick.

1799 S. T. Coleridge Let. 19 May (1956) I. 514 We were such a hospital of bruised Toes, swelled ancles, bladdered soles, & excoriated Heels.

1825 H. Slingsby My Grandmother's Guests I. 160 He found himself dreadfully bruised, and nearly smothered among the boxes and packages.

1884 G. Allen Strange Stories 85 The bruised and livid face of the old parson.

1914 National Mag. Aug. 784/2 The man with the bruised chin came out of the crowd and edged up toward him.

1962 Jet 3 May 55 Aaron bounced off the wall with some badly battered ribs and a bruised knee.

2007 D. Fesperman Amateur Spy (2009) 68 The boy in custody was bruised and bloody. It looked like he had gotten quite a going over.

b. figurative. Of a person's pride, ego, feelings, etc.: hurt, wounded; injured emotionally.

ΚΠ

1547 tr. Herman V of Wied Simple & Relig. Consultation sig. t.i The sacrifice of them selues, of a brused spirite, and herte afflicted thorowe synnes.

1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 398 A troubled spirit is a sacrifice to God, neither will he dispise a bruised heart.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 218 I neuer yet did heare, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the eare.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 36 The brused consciences of so many Christians.

1707 J. Lacy Warnings Eternal Spirit: 2nd Pt. 2 You fear a bruised Heart, doubting whether my healing balsam will make it a better one, than if you never broke it.

1791 J. L. Moore View External Evid. Christian Relig. 120 He gave sight to the blind, and the bruised soul and wounded with its transgressions, he loosed from bondage.

1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xxi. 286 The binding of the bruised heart.

1895 Truth 30 May 1352/1 The complaisant French priest..was a clumsy handler of a bruised conscience.

1917 W. M. Raine Yukon Trail xiv. 165 It was a cry of bruised pride and wounded love.

1976 Jet 15 July 49/1 Aaron left Atlanta with bruised feelings in 1974 after the Braves failed to offer him a chance to manage the club.

1990 J. Eberts & T. Ilott My Indecision is Final liii. 575 The production team undoubtedly suffered bruised egos when Alan was first appointed.

3. Of blood: that has leaked into the tissues or a body cavity; extravasated; forming a bruise or haematoma. Also in figurative contexts. Now chiefly literary.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding > extravasated or effused

bruisedc1440

extravenated1668

extravasated1681

extravasate1765

extravased1852

haemogastric1858

c1440 Privity of Passion (Thornton) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 210 (MED) His lufly face defoulled with spittynge & brissede blode.

a1450 Late Middle Eng. Treat. on Horses (1978) 119 Þou moste schaue it aboute þe corn oþer þe swellynge, & þen schalt þou garce it with many smale pikes meneliche depe, þat þe brused blod may out ren.

1562 Bp. J. Pilkington Vision of Abdy in Aggeus & Abdias Prophetes sig. Ff.iiii^v Eat out the dead rotten phantasies of our mindes, let out the brused bloude.

1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell ii. 125 This sorenesse commonly comes of a corrupt bloud and humour ingendred in the bodie, and sometimes it comes of bruised bloud by some stroke.

1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 113 Bruses and brused blood, stampe Nep leaues with salt and apply them.

1655 Natura Exenterata 137 (heading) A good Plaister and Medicine for an ache, and to draw out bruised blood, and for all manner of griefs.

1726 K. Boles Answer Bk. Hist. Ruptures 38 I..lay on my Caustick, to draw off as much of the windy or bruised Blood as I think convenient.

1871 M. L. Byrn Myst. of Med. Explained 287 A second object in the cure of bruises, is to promote the absorption of the extravasated or bruised blood by liniments, etc.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover v. 57 It would take many years for the living blood of the generations to dissolve the vast black clot of bruised blood, deep inside their souls and bodies.

1981 P. Fallon in Poetry Ireland Rev. Spring 12 I was afraid until I saw the bruised blood stopped in his turned wrist.

1997 Iranian Stud. 30 284 Anxieties on the streets of madness, in our cups, wine the color of bruised blood.

4. Of a fruit, vegetable, or plant: damaged by the weight of an impact or blow; discoloured by a bruise or bruises.

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1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xii. f. xvi A brosed rede, shall he not breacke, and flaxe that begynneth to burne he shall not quenche, tyll he sende forth iudgement vnto victory.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 13 Forget it not, fruite brused will rot.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. viii. 28 Like a bruised Codling Apple a little corrupted on the Leiger side.

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. [a2]^v/1 Bruised Fruit, that is, bruised in falling without piercing the skin, is called in French Cottii, or Squatted.

1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 238 We take special Care not to put one bruised Apple amongst the gathered ones, for the bruised ones will certainly rot and infect the sound ones.

1817 W. Coxe View Cultiv. Fruit Trees xiv. 61 Much of which [sugar] has probably been generated since the fruit became bruised.

1896 Agric. Gaz. New South Wales 6 555 Gather the fruit carefully, avoiding all bruising, as a bruised fruit is a spoilt fruit.

1914 Bulletin (Idaho Agric. Experiment Station) No. 79. 11 The cut or bruised potato offers a place for disease growth.

1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) v. 211 She stood among bruised apples. A statue lay among the windfall.

2004 T. Khair Bus Stopped 148 Some buying fruits from the only stall (half stacked with bruised bananas, shrivelled oranges, some sweets, [etc.]).

5. Of an object or hard surface: damaged by the weight of an impact or blow; battered, dented.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > [adjective] > crushing > crushed

bruised1550

contrited1640

confract1647

contrite1651

obtrite1656

crushed1796

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War i. v. f. xxiiii^v They had bestowed there theyr brused shyppes and theyr hurte people.

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon i. sig. Bvj The man of meane estate..dreads wyth brused barge on swellyng seas to ryde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. 0. 18 His bruised Helmet, and his bended Sword.

1640 W. Prynne in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 77 A bruised Ship-wrackt Vessel, full of Leaks.

1703 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 321 To Joⁿ Patersones man to drink for blaiking my bruised leather shoes.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 41 Oh, it's the beautiful brass pail..and look how it's all battered and bruised!

1894 R. B. Daniel Chapters in Church Music ii. ii. 94 Crooked or bruised metal pipes.

1919 Farm Mech. Oct. 52/1 A driver would hit a stump and slump off with a great crash of bruised metal.

2007 D. Leavitt Indian Clerk 197 She stands, in the process knocking her chair, once more, into the already bruised wall.

Derivatives

ˈbruisedˌness n. the fact or quality of being bruised (physically, emotionally, or spiritually).

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1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. vii. f. clxxxv/1 It is meruelous good to take awaye the payne of brusednes.

1648 R. J. Compunction xx. 230 Here we see is meeknesse and povertie, broken-heartednesse and captivity, blindnesse, restraint and bruisednesse, thraldome and debt.

1833 J. K. Craig Conversion I. ii. 134 There are many peculiar marks by which they [sc. people of God] are known... There is a bruisedness of spirit. There is a penitent, humble mind.

1901 Hahnemannian Monthly Feb. 181 [Application of bellis perennis] promptly relieved the bruisedness and tenderness brought on by the passage of gall-stones.

2010 Guardian 28 Aug. 30/2 There is a slight bruisedness to Eshun, with his boyish face and incipient middle-aged spread; you feel, occasionally, like you're beating him up by asking questions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bruised
释义	bruisedadj. Brit. /bruːzd/, U.S. /bruzd/ Forms: see bruise v. and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bruise v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < bruise v. + -ed suffix¹.With bruisedness n. at Derivatives compare Old English gebrȳsednes bruising, crushing ( < gebrȳsed , past participle of brȳsan (see bruise v.) + -ness suffix). 1. Esp. of a foodstuff: (partially) ground or broken down by a pestle, millstone, or other implement; pounded, crushed. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > grinding or pounding > [adjective] > ground poundedOE bruiseda1382 brayed1382 groundenc1386 ystampeda1425 ybraidc1430 brayded1561 stamped1600 grinded1613 contrited1640 well grinded1651 beaten1666 comminuted1725 contunding1739 ground1765 beat1793 kibbled1826 machine-ground1862 ground-up1897 mortarized1929 micronized1940 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. ii. 16 Apart of þe brysde corn [L. farris fracti]. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 679 Bresed whete & bresis longe. 1546 J. Bale First Examinacyon A. Askewe f. 3 The lorde hath syfted that howse of Israel (as broused corne in a syffe) amonge all other nacyons. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 519 A farthingwoorth of bruised Licoras. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 911 The bruised seede and storax mixed together, and the fumes thereof taken being cast on quicke coales..will soone ease the continuall headach. ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 652 Bruised nettles to his nostrills..stayed the bleeding. 1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. O3^v Then put into the Liquor some bruis'd Ginger and Pepper. 1767 A. Shackleford Mod. Art Cookery Improved 124 Melt a pound of butter, with an anchovy bruised, a blade or two of mace, the body of a crab or lobster bruised, a little catchup [etc.]. 1837 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 6 ii. 962 This machine is employed principally in Nepal for making chúra, or..bruised rice,..when the people are travelling. 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. x. 240 Reading Sauce,..walnut pickle..shalots..Indian soy..bruised ginger [etc.] 1908 E. W. Lucas Pract. Pharmacy (ed. 2) 304 A strong decoction, prepared by exhausting the coarsely bruised bark in boiling water. 1959 Home Encycl. 90 A spray of bruised elder hung up in a larder will prevent flies settling. 2011 P. Dundas Cooking without Recipes 22 With a pestle and mortar, you can have freshly bruised and cracked peppercorns to pep and draw out flavour in any dish. 2. a. Of a person, animal, or body part: injured, battered, or crushed by a heavy weight or blow. Now usually: having or covered with a bruise or bruises. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded unsoundc1330 wounded1382 bruiseda1400 offended1440 sauciate1509 breached1547 vulnerated1598 interwounding1599 sauciated1657 struck1809 traumatized1935 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > bruised bruiseda1400 surbateda1425 pounced?a1563 black and blue1568 squat1600 mauled1690 mourning1709 contused1761 stubbed1890 stone-bruised1909 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 52 Anoynte þe membre þat is brosid..& caste aboue a poudre maad of þe seed of mirtilles, & bynde it softly. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxvii. l. 94 A ful wery and A-brosed Manne. 1547 J. Bale Lattre Examinacyon A. Askewe f. 49 For Anguysh and payne of her broken ioyntes and broused armes and eyes, she curseth not the tyme that euer she was borne. a1610 N. Pownall Young Divines Apologie (1612) 107 A wounded spirit in a bruised, and broken bodie, who can beare? 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Seton, a rowell; or the rowelling, or roping of a bruised or strained horse. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 420/2 The Terebellum..an Instrument to take up broken or bruised Skulls. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vi. 82 Like an old invalid soldier out of the wars, maim'd, bruis'd, sick. 1799 S. T. Coleridge Let. 19 May (1956) I. 514 We were such a hospital of bruised Toes, swelled ancles, bladdered soles, & excoriated Heels. 1825 H. Slingsby My Grandmother's Guests I. 160 He found himself dreadfully bruised, and nearly smothered among the boxes and packages. 1884 G. Allen Strange Stories 85 The bruised and livid face of the old parson. 1914 National Mag. Aug. 784/2 The man with the bruised chin came out of the crowd and edged up toward him. 1962 Jet 3 May 55 Aaron bounced off the wall with some badly battered ribs and a bruised knee. 2007 D. Fesperman Amateur Spy (2009) 68 The boy in custody was bruised and bloody. It looked like he had gotten quite a going over. b. figurative. Of a person's pride, ego, feelings, etc.: hurt, wounded; injured emotionally. ΚΠ 1547 tr. Herman V of Wied Simple & Relig. Consultation sig. t.i The sacrifice of them selues, of a brused spirite, and herte afflicted thorowe synnes. 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 398 A troubled spirit is a sacrifice to God, neither will he dispise a bruised heart. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 218 I neuer yet did heare, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the eare. View more context for this quotation 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 36 The brused consciences of so many Christians. 1707 J. Lacy Warnings Eternal Spirit: 2nd Pt. 2 You fear a bruised Heart, doubting whether my healing balsam will make it a better one, than if you never broke it. 1791 J. L. Moore View External Evid. Christian Relig. 120 He gave sight to the blind, and the bruised soul and wounded with its transgressions, he loosed from bondage. 1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xxi. 286 The binding of the bruised heart. 1895 Truth 30 May 1352/1 The complaisant French priest..was a clumsy handler of a bruised conscience. 1917 W. M. Raine Yukon Trail xiv. 165 It was a cry of bruised pride and wounded love. 1976 Jet 15 July 49/1 Aaron left Atlanta with bruised feelings in 1974 after the Braves failed to offer him a chance to manage the club. 1990 J. Eberts & T. Ilott My Indecision is Final liii. 575 The production team undoubtedly suffered bruised egos when Alan was first appointed. 3. Of blood: that has leaked into the tissues or a body cavity; extravasated; forming a bruise or haematoma. Also in figurative contexts. Now chiefly literary. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding > extravasated or effused bruisedc1440 extravenated1668 extravasated1681 extravasate1765 extravased1852 haemogastric1858 c1440 Privity of Passion (Thornton) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 210 (MED) His lufly face defoulled with spittynge & brissede blode. a1450 Late Middle Eng. Treat. on Horses (1978) 119 Þou moste schaue it aboute þe corn oþer þe swellynge, & þen schalt þou garce it with many smale pikes meneliche depe, þat þe brused blod may out ren. 1562 Bp. J. Pilkington Vision of Abdy in Aggeus & Abdias Prophetes sig. Ff.iiii^v Eat out the dead rotten phantasies of our mindes, let out the brused bloude. 1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell ii. 125 This sorenesse commonly comes of a corrupt bloud and humour ingendred in the bodie, and sometimes it comes of bruised bloud by some stroke. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 113 Bruses and brused blood, stampe Nep leaues with salt and apply them. 1655 Natura Exenterata 137 (heading) A good Plaister and Medicine for an ache, and to draw out bruised blood, and for all manner of griefs. 1726 K. Boles Answer Bk. Hist. Ruptures 38 I..lay on my Caustick, to draw off as much of the windy or bruised Blood as I think convenient. 1871 M. L. Byrn Myst. of Med. Explained 287 A second object in the cure of bruises, is to promote the absorption of the extravasated or bruised blood by liniments, etc. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover v. 57 It would take many years for the living blood of the generations to dissolve the vast black clot of bruised blood, deep inside their souls and bodies. 1981 P. Fallon in Poetry Ireland Rev. Spring 12 I was afraid until I saw the bruised blood stopped in his turned wrist. 1997 Iranian Stud. 30 284 Anxieties on the streets of madness, in our cups, wine the color of bruised blood. 4. Of a fruit, vegetable, or plant: damaged by the weight of an impact or blow; discoloured by a bruise or bruises. ΚΠ 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xii. f. xvi A brosed rede, shall he not breacke, and flaxe that begynneth to burne he shall not quenche, tyll he sende forth iudgement vnto victory. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 13 Forget it not, fruite brused will rot. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. viii. 28 Like a bruised Codling Apple a little corrupted on the Leiger side. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. [a2]^v/1 Bruised Fruit, that is, bruised in falling without piercing the skin, is called in French Cottii, or Squatted. 1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 238 We take special Care not to put one bruised Apple amongst the gathered ones, for the bruised ones will certainly rot and infect the sound ones. 1817 W. Coxe View Cultiv. Fruit Trees xiv. 61 Much of which [sugar] has probably been generated since the fruit became bruised. 1896 Agric. Gaz. New South Wales 6 555 Gather the fruit carefully, avoiding all bruising, as a bruised fruit is a spoilt fruit. 1914 Bulletin (Idaho Agric. Experiment Station) No. 79. 11 The cut or bruised potato offers a place for disease growth. 1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) v. 211 She stood among bruised apples. A statue lay among the windfall. 2004 T. Khair Bus Stopped 148 Some buying fruits from the only stall (half stacked with bruised bananas, shrivelled oranges, some sweets, [etc.]). 5. Of an object or hard surface: damaged by the weight of an impact or blow; battered, dented. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > [adjective] > crushing > crushed bruised1550 contrited1640 confract1647 contrite1651 obtrite1656 crushed1796 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War i. v. f. xxiiii^v They had bestowed there theyr brused shyppes and theyr hurte people. 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon i. sig. Bvj The man of meane estate..dreads wyth brused barge on swellyng seas to ryde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. 0. 18 His bruised Helmet, and his bended Sword. View more context for this quotation 1640 W. Prynne in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 77 A bruised Ship-wrackt Vessel, full of Leaks. 1703 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 321 To Joⁿ Patersones man to drink for blaiking my bruised leather shoes. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 41 Oh, it's the beautiful brass pail..and look how it's all battered and bruised! 1894 R. B. Daniel Chapters in Church Music ii. ii. 94 Crooked or bruised metal pipes. 1919 Farm Mech. Oct. 52/1 A driver would hit a stump and slump off with a great crash of bruised metal. 2007 D. Leavitt Indian Clerk 197 She stands, in the process knocking her chair, once more, into the already bruised wall. Derivatives ˈbruisedˌness n. the fact or quality of being bruised (physically, emotionally, or spiritually). ΚΠ 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. vii. f. clxxxv/1 It is meruelous good to take awaye the payne of brusednes. 1648 R. J. Compunction xx. 230 Here we see is meeknesse and povertie, broken-heartednesse and captivity, blindnesse, restraint and bruisednesse, thraldome and debt. 1833 J. K. Craig Conversion I. ii. 134 There are many peculiar marks by which they [sc. people of God] are known... There is a bruisedness of spirit. There is a penitent, humble mind. 1901 Hahnemannian Monthly Feb. 181 [Application of bellis perennis] promptly relieved the bruisedness and tenderness brought on by the passage of gall-stones. 2010 Guardian 28 Aug. 30/2 There is a slight bruisedness to Eshun, with his boyish face and incipient middle-aged spread; you feel, occasionally, like you're beating him up by asking questions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1382
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