Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To tear in pieces; rend; lacerate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To tear in pieces.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb dated, formal To
tear into pieces.
Etymologies
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Latin laniatus, past participle of laniare.
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Examples
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Bedded on new made scones240 and cakes in piles to laniate.
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Bedded on new made scones [FN#240] and cakes in piles to laniate.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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To laniate j to wonod with any (harp point drawn along.
A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ... 1768
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