ppl. a. [f. L. fract- (see prec.) + -ED1.]
† 1. Broken, in various senses. Of a number: Fractional. Obs.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, § 321. If … the memory [be] fracted with the pregnance of it [some matter above his capacity].
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., II. i. 130.
| His heart is fracted and corroborate. | |
| Ibid. (1607), Timon, II. i. 22 | |
| And my reliances on his fracted dates | |
| Have smit my credit. |
1674. Jeake, A Compleat Body of Arithmetick (1696), 161. If the Addends be Fracted Geodæticals, whether greater, or lesser, or Integral when Fracted, Then proceed in the Addition with the Fractions as Fractions, and the Integers as Integers, according to their respective Rules.
1706. W. Jones, Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos, 163. This Proportion will hold, whether n be Affirmative, or Negative, Whole, Fracted, or Surd Quantity.
2. Her. Having a part displaced as if broken.
1828–40. Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Fracted, broken or parted asunder … [e.g.] a fesse debruised, fracted or removed.
