breaden
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From bread + -en (“made of, consisting of”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛdən
Adjective[edit]
breaden (not comparable)
- (archaic) Made of bread.
- 1827, Joseph Ivimey, Pilgrims of the Nineteenth Century, page 100:
- We have no objection to their manufacturing and eating their breaden God, if they are prevented from roasting and destroying us.
- 1840, John Rogers, Anti-Popery:
- The Worship of the Host may be called idolatry, being the worship of bread and wine, of a breaden and a winemade god!
- 1862, Edward Harper, Rome, Antichrist, and the Papacy, page 88:
- […] — of working the stupendous miracle of making Christ manifest in a piece of bread or a drop of wine; and, if that bread or wine be infinitesimally divided, of making as many breaden or wine Christs as there are particles of bread or drops of wine!
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- OED 2nd edition 1989