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debruised

debruised adjective: surmounted by an ordinary (or something else).

debruised: surmounted by an ordinary (or something else)
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Adjective

debruised (not comparable)

  1. Surmounted by an ordinary (or something else).
    • A lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it.
    • 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...

Origin of debruised

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

Questions about debruised

What does debruised mean?
Debruised means surmounted by an ordinary (or something else).
What part of speech is debruised?
Debruised is an adjective.

Words near debruised in the dictionary

  1. Debrosse
  2. Debrosses
  3. Debruhl
  4. Debruhls
  5. debruise
  6. debruised
  7. debruises
  8. debruising
  9. DeBruler
  10. DeBrulers
  11. debs

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