v. rare. [ad. L. contundĕre, f. con- together + tundĕre to beat, thump, etc.]
† 1. trans. To pound, bruise, beat small (in a mortar). Obs. or arch.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 49/2. Take Roses, and contunde them with the whyte of an Egge.
1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1653), 236. Medicines made of vegetables, decocted, contunded or mixed, [etc.].
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Contund, to knock or beat in peeces.
2. To bruise (the body), affect with contusions; to pound or thrash (adversaries). humorous or affected.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. ii. 71. His muscles were so extended and contunded that he was not Corpus mobile. Ibid., III. viii. 117. He would so contund him.
1865. Pall Mall G., 13 Sept., 11/1. We drove into Avranches, wearied and contunded (as a friend of mine expresses it).
1885. Burgon, in Q. Rev., Jan., 19 (Twelve Good Men, II. 185). He was, single-handed, contunding a host of unbelievers.
Hence Contunded ppl. a., Contunding vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; Contunder, one who ‘contunds.’
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 136/1. Make of contundede Akornes, and of honye a paest.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 51. Preparations … made with contunding, grinding, or scraping.
1758. J. S., trans. Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 65. A contunding Instrument strikes the Head.
1820. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 63. II. 85. This Contunder of Heresies.
1822. Scott, Nigel, xxxi. (K. James loquitur). Us that are … the contunding and contriturating hammer of all witches.
