Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RUP'TURE, n. [Fr. from L. ruptus, rumpo, to break.]

1. The act of breaking or bursting; the state of being broken or violently parted; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber. Arbuthnot.
2. Hernia; a preternatural protrusion of the contents of the abdomen.
3. Breach of peace or concord; either between individuals or nations; between nations, open hostility or war. We say, the parties or nations have come to an open rupture. He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family. E. Everett.