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9 Her filthy parbreak all the place defiled has. parbreak > vomit

—The Faerie Queene — Volume 01

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To vomit. And virulently dysgorged, As though ye wolde parbrake. Skelton, Poems (ed. Dyce), II. 77. When to my great annoyance, and almost parbreaking, I have seene any of these silly creatures. Benvenuto, Passengers’ Dialogues (1612). (Nares.)
To vomit; belch forth; vent. His goldbright shield fire perbrakes. Phaer, Æneid, x. Come, snake-trest Sisters, com, ye dismall Elves, … Com, parbreak heer your foul, black, banefull gall. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Furies. When he hath parbrak'd his grieved mind. Bp. Hall, Satires, I. v. 9
Vomit. Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has. Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 20.

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9 Her filthy parbreak all the place defiled has. parbreak > vomit — The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
25 parbreak, i. — The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
O daughter mine, thou hast begun to put thy hand to the plough of virtue, leaving the parbreak of mortal sin; it behoves thee, then, to persevere, to receive the reward of thy labour, which thy soul endures, choosing to bridle its youth, that it may not run to be a member of the devil. — Letters of Catherine Benincasa

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Also perbreak, parbrake, perbrake; from Middle English parbraken; from par- for per-, through (cf. parboil), + break.
from parbreak, v.

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