dilaniate

First attested in 1535; Borrowed from Latin dīlāniātus, perfect passive participle of dīlāniō (“to dilacerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dis- + lāniō (“to tear to pieces”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈleɪnieɪt/

dilaniate (third-person singular simple present dilaniates, present participle dilaniating, simple past and past participle dilaniated)

1. (obsolete) To rend in pieces; to tear.
   • 1644, James Howell, England’s Teares, for the Present Wars, […], London: […] Richard Heron, →OCLC, page 12:

     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.

• “dilaniate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• taenidial

dilaniate

1. inflection of dilaniare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative

dilaniate f pl

1. feminine plural of dilaniato

• adenilati

dīlaniāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dīlaniō