confringere

confringere [CL] 1 to break, shatter; b (fig.). c to fracture (a limb). d to break open (a sealed letter or a box). confracta linquens limina Carm. Aldh. 1. 146; effigies veterum confringens jure deorum Aldh. CE 4. 9. 5; unum molendinum quod omnes pene naves ~it per magnam turbationem maris (Kent) DB I 1; s1141 (v. confractio 1b); ibi pretiosissime boie, quas S. Æðeldreda confregit Lib. Eli. III 50; s1256 ostia, fenestras et tripodes ~entes M. Par. Maj. V 594; veluti baculis arundineis omnino confractis [cf. IV Reg. xviii 21] Ric. Armagh AP 20; s1379 naves vi tempestatis ‥ ~untur V. Ric. II 16; 1507 pro factura xij cocliarium argenti ex novo composit’ ex antiquo confracto Ac. Durh. 659. b vir sine felle, / dentes invidie confringens H. Avr. Hugh 1041. c confregit ‥ pene omnes costas ejus Ælf. Æthelwold 11; cadentis ‥ brachium, si super illud ceciderit, ~itur W. Fitzst. Thom. prol. 17. d s1187 confractis ‥ litteris archiepiscopi ‥ invenerunt ‥ Gerv. Cant. I 381; 1262 confractum fuit breve ‥ et iterum sigillatum de precepto domini regis Cl 170; 1438 auditores pixidem ‥ coram ipsis per quendam fabrum ~entes ExchScot 68. 2 (p. ppl. confractus) worn out, exhausted. b (w. corde) heart-broken. s1403 quibus blesis adulatoriis promissionibus H. de Percy ~us [Fordun Cont. XV 17: effractus] ‥ congressum ‥ prorogavit Plusc. X 20; 1488 senio ~ti et aliis prepediti negociis Reg. Paisley 153. b verisimiliter corde ~i propter perdicionem fortalicii G. Hen. V 8. 3 to infringe, subvert, invalidate. 833 (? 10c) nostram donationem ~ere vel in aliut convertare sic CS 406.

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