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dilaniated

dilaniated is the simple past and past participle of dilaniate.

Meaning of dilaniate

Verb

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

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

Questions about dilaniated

What is dilaniated the simple past and past participle of?
Dilaniated is the simple past and past participle of dilaniate.

Words near dilaniated in the dictionary

  1. dilamination
  2. Dilan
  3. Dilanian
  4. Dilanians
  5. dilaniate
  6. dilaniated
  7. dilaniates
  8. dilaniation
  9. dilanthanum
  10. dilapidate
  11. dilapidated

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