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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1669-1688
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Fractious, a. [Mod. Eng. (1725).] a. Marked by breakage of parts. b. Refractory. — 1669 Justiciary Ct. Rec. II. 7.
The wound … being joined with the fractious contusions and ruptures which accompanied the same, it could not be cured 1688 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII. 351.
Some of the small valwations quho are fractious to their leaders are slack in paying their proportions
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