Debruised

Fr. Brochant

a lion rampant guardant debruised of a fess

barry arg and az, debruised of a bend gu

a chevron debruised and fretted with a barrulet

a chevron pierced with a barrulet debruised on the sinister side*

 Said of an ordinary  laid over and across a charge or over and across another ordinary. The term appears to have arisen in English armoury to denote any living creature represented as debarred of its natural freedom by any of the ordinaries laid over it.  Some authors hold that when the pale is placed over a  charge, such charge is said to be debruised by a pale; but if the charge is placed over the pale, it is then termed supported.

The terms Depressed and Oppressed have occasionally been used for debruised. Compare with Surmounted.

Debruised and surmounted are often indiscriminately used when describing a charge, other than an ordinary,  laid over and across another charge

Debruised is likewise applicable to express, in the folding of serpents, whether the head or tail is overlaid or debruised by the other part.

Bowed-embowed, debruised, with the head, that is, the serpent is also twice or thrice rounded but with the head debruising the folds, that is, projecting over all of them.

See Serpents

*In this example, the barrulet enters the chevron under the dexter side and overlays it on the sinister; but had the contrary been the case, debruised, without the addition of sinister, would have been sufficient, the dexter being ever implied when the sinister is not particularly named.