ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.]
1. Hurt or damaged by a heavy blow; contused; with skin crushed and discolored. (Formerly in stronger sense.)
1388. Wyclif, Matt. xii. 20. A brisid [1382 schaken] rehed he shal not breke.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, xxvii. 94. A ful wery and abrosed Manne.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 32. Forget it not Fruit brused will rot.
1727. De Foe, Eng. Tradesm. (1841), I. vi. 44. Like an old invalid soldier out of the wars, maimed, bruised, and sick.
1884. G. Allen, Strange Stories, 85. He found to his horror that it was the bruised and livid face of the old parson.
fig. 1604. Shaks., Oth., I. iii. 219. I neuer yet did heare That the bruized heart was pierc’d through the eares.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect. (1851), 297. The brused consciences of so many Christians.
b. Of blood: Extravasated. Obs. or dial.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 113. Bruses and brused bloud, stampe Nep leaues with salt and apply them.
Mod. Sc. Briz’d bluid.
2. Crushed, battered, dinted.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 14. Often bounding on the brused gras.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., V. Prol. 18. His bruised Helmet and his bended Sword.
c. 1650. in Rushw., Hist. Coll., III. (1692), I. 77. A bruised Ship-wrackt Vessel, full of Leaks.
1840. Hood, Up the Rhine, 44. Oh it’s the beautiful brass pail … and how it’s all bruised and battered.
3. Crushed small, brayed, pounded.
1382. [see BRUISE v. 4].
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 679. Bresed whete and breses longe.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 194. Those [birds] who feed on bruised seeds.
