a. [f. BREAD sb. + -EN1.] Made or consisting of bread. † Breaden god: a polemical term for the consecrated host.
1579. Fulke, Confut. Sanders, 696. They might as well see him burne his breaden Gods.
1609. Sir E. Hoby, Let. Mr. T. H., 84. Your breaden doll in a shauelings hand.
1624. T. Taylor, 2 Serm., i. 23. So must every man worship the breaden, brazen, woodden, and golden gods.
1626. Hakewill, Comparison, 11. Their bredden Idoll in the consecrated host.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. 1. Delighted to behold the breaden god carried in a box.
1680. H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 354. I mean this Deus Panaceus this Breaden-God of the Pontificians.
1703. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., IV. ii. (1852), 47. The papists, who kneel before their breaden god.
1827. J. Ivimey, Pilgr. of 19th C., iii. 100. We have no objection to their manufacturing and eating their breaden God, if they are prevented from roasting and destroying us.
1839. J. Rogers, Antipopopr., VIII. ii. 242. The worship … of a breaden and winemade God.
