Dilaniate

Quick meaning: Dilaniate is a verb meaning (obsolete) To rend in pieces; to tear.

Meaning

(obsolete) To rend in pieces; to tear.

Example Sentences

For although ſix abſolute Princes were interreſſed in the quarrel, and that they had all juſt pretences, and were heated and heightned in their deſignes, yet rather than they would dilaniat the entrailes of their owne mother (faire Italy) and expoſe her thereby to be raviſh'd by Tramontanes, they met half way, and complyed with one another in a gallant kind of freedome, though everie one bore his ſhare in ſome inconvenience.

Word Forms

• dilaniates
• dilaniating
• dilaniated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dilacerate, laniate, divellicate, tear, totear, tear up.

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