'Ruptuary' definitions:

Definition of 'Ruptuary'

From: GCIDE
  • Ruptuary \Rup"tu*a*ry\ (?; 135), n. [Cf. Roturier.] One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • The exclusion of the French ruptuaries ("roturiers," for history must find a word for this class when it speaks of other nations) from the order of nobility. --Chenevix. [1913 Webster]