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Webster 1913 Edition
Debruised
De-bruised′
,Adj.
[Cf. OF.
debruisier
to shatter, break. Cf. Bruise
.] (Her.)
Surmounted by an ordinary;
as, a lion is
. debruised
when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cutThe lion of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they where
debruised
in token of his illegitimate birth. Macaulay.