contrude

Verb

contrude (third-person singular simple present contrudes, present participle contruding, simple past and past participle contruded)

1. (intransitive, rare, transitive) to crowd or push together (in senses relating to teeth)
   • She now needed braces, as her teeth were contruded.
   • Were it not for this attachment on the bow, the force of the elastic upon the cuspid over which it would pass would contrude it, unless it was secured to the bow with a band attachment.1635, Calvin Case, A Practical Treatise on the Technics and Principles of Dental Orthopedia and Prosthetic Correction of Cleft Palate
   1. (intransitive, rare, transitive) to create an abnormal inward curve of any portion of the line of the dental arch
2. (intransitive, transitive) to cause a downward or inward curve line of the strata
3. (intransitive, rare, transitive) to motivate; to influence
   • Nothing contrudes him to behave!
4. (intransitive, transitive) to envisage; to imagine
   • Contrude you were the king.
   • Contrude the spot must be one where the tide in the ordinary and regular coul of things flove and reflors. Since th peace in question is not affected I ordinary tides, the right of the purk CASE stated by justices under 20 & 21 Vict. c. 43, the facts of which ofish here were in substance as...1888, John Chipman Gray, Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Property: Volume 2
5. (intransitive, obsolete, transitive) to thrust or crowd together; to cram
   • We were too tired to take the stairs and decided to contrude ourselves into the small elevator.
   • If beaſts and Birds ſo gratefull be; What then Shall we imagine of theſe thankleſſ Men, But, That there's a Ghinnon to contrude All guilty of ſuch baſe ingratitude?1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells: Their Names, Orders and Offices"