Meaning of dilaniate | Babel Free

Definitions

To rend in pieces; to tear.

obsolete

Examples

“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.”

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