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▪ I. † diˈlacerate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. dīlacerātus torn asunder, pa. pple. of dīlacerāre: see next.]
Rent asunder, torn: used as pple. and adj.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 368 England..dilacerate and infested..by the Danes. 1608Middleton Trick to catch Old-one i. i, What may a stranger expect from thee but vulnera dilacerata, as the poet says, dilacerate dealing? 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 489 His dilacerate members.
▪ II. dilacerate, v.|dɪ-, daɪˈlæsəreɪt|
Also 7 de-.
[f. ppl. stem of L. dīlacerāre (f. di-, dis- asunder (di-1) + lacerāre to tear, lacerate); also dēlacerāre, whence the formerly frequent variant delacerate.]
trans. To tear asunder, tear in pieces. Also fig.
α1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Dilacerate, to rent in sunder. 1618Hist. Perkin Warbeck in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 80 You..know how the house of York hath been dilacerated and torn in pieces by the cruel hand of tyrants and home-bred wolves. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 38 Their eares are extended and dilacerated very much. 1650Descr. Future Hist. Europe Pref. 2 The Church is dilacerated, the Commonwealth disjoynted. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. lii. (1737) 211 All were dilacerated and spoil'd. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 11 Shall we first dilacerate this man? 1848J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inferno (1849) 334 See how I dilacerate myself.
β1624T. Scott Vox Cœli Ded. 5 The Match long since prophetically delacerated. 1647R. Baron Cyprian Acad. 15 Acteons dogs..greedy to delacerate his limbes instead of the innocent beast he persued.
Hence diˈlacerated ppl. a.
1650A. B. Mutat. Polemo To Rdr. 2 My poor dilacerated Countrey. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iv. xxxiii. (1713) 385 The dilacerated Empire of Rome. |