▪ I. parbreak, n. Obs. or arch. rare.
(ˈpɑːbreɪk)
[f. next.]
Vomit, spewing.
| 1586 Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. ii, Loathsome parbreak of the Stygian snakes. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. i. 20 Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has. 1884 Symonds Shaks. Predec. x. 374 The very parbreak of a youthful poet's indigestion. |
▪ II. † parbreak, v. Obs.
(pɑːˈbreɪk)
Forms: α. 5–7 parbrake, 6 -breke, -brack, 6–7 -break(e. β. 6–7 perbrake, -break. pa. pple. 6 -braked, -brak'd, -brackt, -breakt, 7 -brak't, -breaked.
[A compound of brake v.6, of which it is a synonym; subseq. referred to the more common break v. The prefix is identical in form with F. par-, and, like it, in Eng. occas. spelt per-; cf. perbreak v. to break through or thoroughly. By Sylvester, and in recent Dicts., stressed ˈparbreak.]
1. To spew, vomit; = brake v.6 a. intr.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 47/2 Brakynge or parbrakynge, vomitus. 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 39 b, He wyll nat cease fro surfettynge, tyll he be redy to parbrake. a 1529 Skelton Duke of Albany 322 And virulently dysgorgyd, As though ye wolde parbrake [rime to make]. 1530 Palsgr. 478/1, I cast my gorge, as a haulke doth, or a man that parbraketh. 1587 Levins Pathway to Health (1632) 27 b, It will cause a man for to cast or perbreake. a 1610 Healey Theophrastus (1616) 14 Yesterday, hee sayth, I was wamble⁓cropt, and (sauing your presence) parbrak't. |
b. trans.
| 1545 T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 128 Marke that the which the chylde doth perbrake, whether it sauer sharpely lyke vyneger. 1573 Twyne æneid x. (1584) P v b, His goldbright shield fire perbrakes. 1589 Mar Martine 5 Thou hast parbrackt out thy gorge, and shot out all thy arrowes. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iii. Furies 253 Come, parbreak here your foul, black, banefull gall. |
2. fig. (trans.) To utter or pour forth recklessly or offensively; to vomit forth.
| 1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 63 That semeth the beter than with sotil sillogismes to parbrake thi witt. 1523 [Coverdale] Old God & New (1534) R, Many there are now a daies, which in y⊇ pulpit do..perbrake forth theyr priuate braulles, hatredes, & pryde. 1597–8 Bp. Hall Sat. i. v. 9 And when he hath parbrak'd his grieued mind. 1599 Broughton's Lett. i. 6 Your virulent letters (parbreakt from a poysonfull stomacke). 1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell 165 One of those in whom Satan hath parbreaked and spewed the spawne of all sorts of sinne. |
Hence † parˈbreaking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| c 1440 [see 1 a]. 1530 Palsgr. 251/2 Parbrekyng, vomissement. 1590 P. Barrough Meth. Physick 293 Miserably tormented with perbraking and continuall vomiting. 1656 Ridgley Pract. Physick 61 It [Cholic] is eased by parbreaking. 1746 Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 148 A wud ha' had a coad, riggelting, parbeaking, piping Body in tha! |