ppl. a. [Obs. pa. pple. of BURST v.; like many other strong pples. in -en, it is still sometimes used attrib., esp. in poetical or rhetorical language.] = BURST ppl. a.
c. 1440. Anc. Cookery, in Housh. Ord. (1790), 462. Take qwete streyned, that is for to say brosten.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 53. Brostyn man, herniosus.
1544. Phaër, Regim. Lyfe (1560), U iij b. A drynke for one that is brusten.
c. 1620. Chapman, Batrachom., Ep. Ded. (1858), 38. Even bursten profusion.
1638. Mynshul, Ess. Prison, 44. In prisons, Gentlemen, and bursten Citizens meet as upon the Exchange.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 444, ¶ 4. A Doctor for the Cure of bursten Children.
1762. trans. Duhamel’s Husb., III. xii. (ed. 2), 414. All rotten or bursten grapes.
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr. (1858), 111. Vow grown quite corpulent, bursten, superfluous.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul (1883), 544. The worn-out and bursten condition of the old bottles.
† b. Comb., as bursten-bellied, -gutted. Obs.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 263. To cure those that be bursten bellied.
1661. K. W., Conf. Charact. (1860), 47. A … clubfooted burstengutted, longneck’t … hircocerous.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb., 477. Whether it was usual for pigs to be bursten-bellied.
