Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Causing fracture; breaking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Causing fracture; breaking.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Causing fractures.
Etymologies
Latin frangens, present participle of frangere. See fraction. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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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.
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