Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Causing fractures.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Causing fracture; breaking.

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  • adjective Causing fracture; breaking.

Etymologies

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Latin frangens, present participle of frangere. See fraction.

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Examples

  • They were armed with that most bloody instrument, the mud out of the kennels: they hissed in the most murderous manner: broke Mr. Sheriff Harley's coach-glass in the most frangent manner; scratched his forehead, so that he is forced to wear a little patch in the most becoming manner; and obliged the hangman to burn the paper with a link, though fagots were prepared to execute it in a more solemn manner.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

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