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Wiseman, Surgery. ruptive (rup'tiv), a. [ L.rumpere, pp. ruptus, break: see rupture.] Causing or tending to cause breakage. [Rare.] Certain breakages of this cla may perhaps to some extent be accounted for by the action of a torsional ruptive force on rounding curves. The Engineer , LXIX. 492. ruptuary (rup'tū-ā-ri), n.; pl. ruptuaries (-riz). [ rupturarius , ruptura , a field, a form of feudal tenure; cf. roturier , and see rupture .] A roturier; a member of the plebeian cla , as contrasted with the nobles. [Rare.] The exclusion of the French ruptuaries ("roturiers," for history must find a word for this cla when it speaks of other nations) from the order of nobility. Chenevix . rupture (rup'tūr), n. [OF. rupture , roupture , routure, a rupture, breach, F. rupture = Sp. ruptura, rotura = Pg. ruptura = It. rottura , ruptura , a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein), in ML. also a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc., rumpere , pp. ruptus, break, burst; cf. Lith. rupas , rough, AS. rcó fan , Icel. rjúfa , break, reave, Skt. V rup, lup , break, destroy, spoil. From the L. rumpere are also ult. E. abrupt , corrupt, disrupt , erupt , in terrupt , irruption , rotel , rout3 , rout4 , route1 , rou tine, rut1. To the same ult. root belong reave , rob1, robe , rovel, rover , etc., loot .] 1. The act of breaking or bursting; the state of being broken or violently parted: as, a rupture of the skin; the rupture of a ve el or fiber. Their brood as numerous hatch, from the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosed Their callow young.