A rare or archaic adjective meaning broken into pieces, fragmented, or characterized by being shattered or fractured.
Likely derived from Latin 'fracedinus' or constructed from 'frace-' (related to 'fractus,' broken) with the adjectival suffix '-inous,' though this word is extremely rare in historical texts.
This word is so obscure that it barely appears in English literature, yet its Latin structure makes perfect sense—it's the kind of word that *should* exist but got lost when English simplified its borrowed vocabulary.
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