ppl. a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -ED.]
1. Crushed, ground to pieces; worn by rubbing.
1640. Fuller, Joseph’s Coat, Comm. 1 Cor. xi. 24 (1867), 58. All His bones were broken, that is, contrited and grinded with grief and sorrow.
1761. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, III. xlii. So contrited and attrited was it with fingers and with thumbs.
2. = CONTRITE 2; reduced to contrition.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 424/3. With good & contryted herte.
1556. Abp. Parker, Psalter H iij. A sorrowfull hart and contrited spirite.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St. (1841), 444. Inwardly contrited in heart for the sins he had committed.
1816. W. Allen, Life & Corr., I. 291. At meeting on first-day morning I was very low and contrited.
1821. Mrs. Opie, in Miss Brightwell, Mem. (1854), 185. The breathings of a supplicating and contrited heart.
