v. Obs. Forms: see BRUISE v. [OE. to-brýsan, f. TO-2 + brýsan to BRUISE.] trans. To crush to pieces, to smash; to bruise severely.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xxi. 44. Seþe fylþ uppan þysne stan he byð tobrysed [c. 1160 to-brised]; & he to-brysð þone ðe he onuppan fylð.
c. 1200. Ormin, 12032. He munnde þær Tobrisenn all himm sellfenn.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 6059. Hii … henede him wiþ stones … & tobrusede is smale bones.
1382. Wyclif, Ecclus. xxviii. 2. The wounde … of a tunge shal to-broosen boenes.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 1274. All bebled & to-brissid [Dubl. to-brysed].
c. 1450. Merlin, x. 157. He … hym threwe to the erthe so rudely, that he hym all to brosed.
1516. Life St. Birgette, in Myrr. our Ladye, p. lviii. There theyr Shyppe was all to Broysyd.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., XXXI. x. 418. All to brused and broken.
