fract
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin frāctus, past participle of frangere (“to break”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fract (third-person singular simple present fracts, present participle fracting, simple past and past participle fracted)
- (obsolete) To break; to violate.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 74, column 1:
- Hoſt[ess]. As euer you come of women, come in quickly to ſir Iohn: A poore heart, hee is ſo ſhak’d of a burning quotidian Tertian, that it is moſt lamentable to behold. Sweet men, come to him. / Nym. The King hath run bad humors on the Knight, that’s the euen of it. / Piſt[ol]. Nym, thou haſt ſpoke the right, his heart is fracted and corroborate.