breaden

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.?

Proto-Germanic *braudą

Proto-West Germanic *braud

Old English brēad

Middle English bred

English bread

English -en

English breaden

From bread + -en (“made of, consisting of”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛdən

Adjective

breaden (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Made of bread (in the context of the Eucharist).
   • 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!

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “breaden”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Bearden, Braeden, red bean