fracted

English

Etymology

From fract (“to break”) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

fracted (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Having a part displaced or broken; said of an ordinary or other charge.
   • 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 136:

     Chevron. (Stafford.) 4. Chevron ployé. (Moll.) 7. Chevronels. (Clare.) 10. Chevron fracted. (Rozier de Linage.) 2. Chevron checquy. (Sempill.) 5. Chevron reversed. (Bulgarini.) 8. Chevron cotised. (Clutton.) […]

   • 1902, Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms from Heraldic Rolls 1298-1418: Illustrated with 830 Zinco Etchings from Effigies, Brasses and Coats of Arms, page 83:

     […] gules a chevron raguly fracted in the centre argent (F.)

   • 1908, Ralph Adams Cram, Christian Art: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to Current Church Building, American and Foreign, and the Allied Ecclesiological Arts, with Expert Discussions of All Topics Relating to Christian Archaeology, page 70:

     […] in base saltireways a pipe, bowl up, and a tomahawk, blade up and turned outward, the shaft fracted, all gules.

2. Broken.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees , is re-legitimate consequences of his false principles , fracted and distorted by a false medium of under cover of equally false history . passions and prejudices

Usage notes

• In heraldry, broken ordinaries (especially chevrons) can be represented artistically and described in blazon in various ways; see examples at rompu.

Related terms

• fracture

Verb

fracted

1. simple past and past participle of fract

References

• “fracted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• crafted