bursten, ppl. a.
(ˈbɜːst(ə)n)
[Obs. pa. pple. of burst v.; like many other strong pples. in -en, it is still sometimes used attrib., esp. in poetical or rhetorical language.]
= burst ppl. a.
| c 1440 Anc. Cookery in Housh. Ord. (1790) 462 Take qwete streyned, that is for to say brosten. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 53 Brostyn man, herniosus. 1544 Phaër Regim. Lyfe (1560) U iij b, A drynke for one that is brusten. c 1620 Chapman Batrachom. Ep. Ded. (1858) 38 Even bursten profusion. 1638 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 44 In prisons, Gentlemen, and bursten Citizens meet as upon the Exchange. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 444 ¶4 A Doctor for the Cure of bursten Children. 1762 tr. Duhamel's Husb. iii. xii. (ed. 2) 414 All rotten or bursten grapes. 1843 Carlyle Past & Pr. (1858) 111 Now grown quite corpulent, bursten, superfluous. 1879 Farrar St. Paul (1883) 544 The worn-out and bursten condition of the old bottles. |
† b. Comb., as bursten-bellied, bursten-gutted. Obs.
| 1601 Holland Pliny II. 263 To cure those that be bursten bellied. 1661 K. W. Conf. Charact. (1860) 47 A..clubfooted burstengutted, longneck't..hircocerous. a 1722 Lisle Husb. 477 Whether it was usual for pigs to be bursten-bellied. |