debruised

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English

The arms of the Steward family of Swardeston feature a lion debruised by a bend raguly.

Etymology

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

Adjective

debruised (not comparable)

(heraldry) Surmounted by an ordinary (or something else).
A lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it.
- 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 Longmans, →OCLC:
  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.
- 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 5:
  Serpent, embowed, the head debruised, or surmounted of the tail; also blazoned, […]

References

“debruised”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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