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▪ I. bruit, n.|bruːt|
Forms: 4 brout, 5 bruyt(e, 5–7 brute, 6 brewte, 6–7 bruite, 5– bruit.
[a. F. bruit in same senses, ppl. n. belonging to bruire vb. to make a noise, roar: corresp. to Pr. bruzer, brugir, OCat. brogir, It. bruire. According to Littré, brugītus, the prototype of bruit, occurs in late L. Diez views with favour a derivation proposed by Ménage from L. rugīre to roar, rugītus roaring, and says that brugit for rugit occurs in Lex Alemann. If this be so, the prefixed b may be due to some onomatopœic alteration.]
1. Noise, din, clamour, sound. arch.
c1450Merlin 211 Ther sholde ye haue herde soche bruyt and soche noyse. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xviii. 23 They made a merueilus great brute, wt blowyng of hornes. 1563Foxe A. & M. I. 689/2 A brute or noise of wild Beasts. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xv. 240 A shrill and suddaine brute this Prothalamion brake. 1637R. Hurst tr. Gombauld's Endim. (1639) 202 A confused bruite of Cymballs. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. i. iii. iii. 57 Testifying, as his wont is, by loud bruit. a1863Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) V. xliii. 219 To check it with the bruit of arms.
2. Report noised abroad, rumour, tidings; matter noised abroad. arch.
1494Fabyan vii. 387 Not long after y⊇ brute of this ouerthrowe of the Englysshemen came vnto the towne. 1611Bible Nahum iii. 19 All that heare the bruit of thee, shall clap the hands ouer thee. 1671Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 66 There came an uncertain bruit from Barbadoes of some disorder there. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. xiv. 88 Who says Miss Clarissa Harlowe is the paragon of virtue?.. Common bruit! Is virtue to be established by common bruit only? 1864Kirk Chas. Bold II. iv. iv. 483 The wildest bruits were greedily credited.
†b. Noising abroad, public utterance. Obs.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark x, The bruite or preaching of the Ghospell.
†3. Fame, renown, celebrity, reputation. Obs.
c1475Caxton Jason 51 The bruit of preu Jason augmented..from day to day. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. Prol. 193 Quha evir in Latyn hes the bruit or glore. 1549–62Sternhold & H. Ps. lxviii. 11 His people triumphes make, and purchase brute and fame. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 20 Ane Arbitour sould be of gude brute and fame.
‖4. Med. A name for any of the sounds heard in auscultation; e.g. bruit artériel, bruit de souffle, etc. A French sense; sometimes used in Eng.
▪ II. bruit, v.|bruːt|
Also 6–7 bruite, 6–8 brute.
[f. bruit n.]
1. trans. To noise, report, rumour. Often with abroad, about.
a1528Skelton Col. Clout 489 With language thus poluted, Holy Churche is bruted. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John iv. 28 The woman did bruit abrode this rumour. 1598Drayton Heroic. Ep. xvi. 101 When Fame shall brute thy Banishment abroad. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. iii. 68, I finde thou art no lesse then Fame hath bruited. 1682Bunyan Holy War 43 If I first brute this, the tidings, that will come after, will all be swallowed up of this. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. iv. iii. 263 The country is getting up; noise of you is bruited day after day. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge (1866) II. lxxiii. 66 This report..was bruited about with much industry.
b. with subord. clause, or an equivalent.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. ccxxii. [ccxviii.] 691 The Frenchemen bruteth that ye wyll put out of your armes tharmes of Fraunce. 1538Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 404 [Those]..which were bruited to deny the sacrament. 1651Proc. Parliament No. 98. 1502 The Enemy was bruted to be upon his March towards Carlisle. 1706Estcourt Fair Examp. iv. i. 51 To blast my Fame, and brute it to the World that you have left me. 1835Lytton Rienzi iv. i, They do bruit it that he sees visions.
c. intr.
1818Keats Endymion i. 791 Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a giant battle was.
2. trans. To speak of, make famous, celebrate.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 11 Let Cesar, Alexander, and Hanniball be bruted for warriers. 1598Yong Diana 98 Of whom Fame brutes their name in euery ground. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. v. (1851) 113 A man so much bruited for learning. 1791Cowper Iliad viii. 220 The shield of Nestor, bruited to the skies. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. 37 Thy wild name Was ne'er more bruited in men's minds than now.
†3. To din. Obs.
1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 86 Whole Towns you will bruit with a Pettifogging Suit.
▪ III. bruit, -ish
obs. forms of brute, brutish. |
