Meanings
- archaicnot comparableMade of bread (in the context of the Eucharist).
The Worship of the Host may be called idolatry, being the worship of bread and wine, of a breaden and a winemade god!
1840, John Rogers, Anti-Popery2 more examples
We have no objection to their manufacturing and eating their breaden God, if they are prevented from roasting and destroying us.
1827, Joseph Ivimey, Pilgrims of the Nineteenth Century, page 100[…] — of working the stupendous miracle of making Christ manifest in a piece of bread or a drop of wine; and, if that bread or wine be infinitesimally divided, of making as many breaden or wine Christs as there are particles of bread or drops of wine!
1862, Edward Harper, Rome, Antichrist, and the Papacy, page 88
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰrewh₁-der.?
- Proto-Germanic*braudą
- Proto-West Germanic*braud
- Old Englishbrēad
- Middle Englishbred
- Englishbread
- Englishbreaden
From bread + -en (“made of, consisting of”).
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breaden. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breaden
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