fracted

Adjective

fracted (not comparable)

1. Having a part displaced or broken; said of an ordinary or other charge.
   • Chevron. (Stafford.) 4. Chevron ployé. (Moll.) 7. Chevronels. (Clare.) 10. Chevron fracted. (Rozier de Linage.) 2. Chevron checquy. (Sempill.) 5. Chevron reversed. (Bulgarini.) 8. Chevron cotised. (Clutton.)[…]1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 136
   • […] gules a chevron raguly fracted in the centre argent (F.)1902, Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms from Heraldic Rolls 1298-1418: Illustrated with 830 Zinco Etchings from Effigies, Brasses and Coats of Arms, page 83
2. Broken.
   • Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees , is re-legitimate consequences of his false principles , fracted and distorted by a false medium of under cover of equally false history . passions and prejudices1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 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