Meanings
- not comparablegovernmentHaving a part displaced or broken; said of an ordinary or other charge.
[…] gules a chevron raguly fracted in the centre argent (F.)
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 832 more examples
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.)[…]
1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 136[…] in base saltireways a pipe, bowl up, and a tomahawk, blade up and turned outward, the shaft fracted, all gules.
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 - not comparableBroken.
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
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
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of fract
Origin
From fract (“to break”) + -ed.
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