ruption Now rare.
(ˈrʌpʃən)
Also 5 rupcioun, 6 -cyon, -tioun.
[ad. obs. F. ruption, or late L. ruptio, noun of action f. rumpĕre to break.]
1. Breach of the peace; disturbance. rare.
| 1483 in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 51 How beit that oft tyme afore certain rupcioun, breke and distrublaunce, has been betwixt the realmes of Ingland and Scotland. 1893 Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. s.v. Ruction, Ruption, a turmoil, as in cleaning; a disturbance, a row. |
2. Breaking or rupture of some membrane or tissue of the animal body.
| 1541 R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 A ij b, The solution of contynuyte..commeth most often with concussyon and ruption. 1578 Banister Hist. Man v. 80 Membrans, and Fibers, toughe..and able, not in prompt to euery ruption. 1655 Culpepper, etc. Riverius ii. v. 74 The Tunicle..is obnoxious to divers diseases, and especially to Ruption, Distortion, Dilatation, and Constriction. 1676 Phil. Trans. XI. 607, I found..I could easily enough unravel that cluster to a considerable length,..before ruption. 1855 Haliburton Nature & Human Nat. (1902) 218 You can't cure it, for it's a ruption of an air vessel, and you can't get at it to sew it up. |
| fig. 1650 C. Elderfield Civ. Right Tythes 343 When mens greedy affections are also checked, their lusts crossed, and their tender ruptions touched to danger of offence. |