laniare

laniare [CL] 1 a to tear, rend, lacerate (person, animal; also in more general use w. ref. to destruction, and absol.). b to tear (one’s own body, hair, clothes, sc. in grief or madness). c to tear up (document). d to break up, hack, chop. a corvi ‥ ~iant Bede Hom. I 15. 76 (v. laniatus); homines servitio premere, tormentis ~iare et morte perimere Id. Prov. 1003; canem ‥ laniare ferocem Altercatio 3; te morsibus ‥ cruentis / ‥ lanient ursique lupique, / et genus omne canum ‥ / ‥ te laceret Wulf. Swith. II 177; Danica ‥ clades ‥ dominicas oves lupino more ~iaverat seu dispersat Ord. Vit. I 24 p. 165; persecare, ~iare, discerpere, lancinare Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 483; [mors] lactantes laniat, lallantes jugulat Walt. Wimb. Sim. 122; parcere vivis et solum ~iare [ME: toteoron] cadavera mortuorum AncrR 22.  b dementia vexabatur ita ut membra sua propria ligno, ferro, unguibus dentibusque ‥ ~iaret Felix Guthl. 41 p. 128 (cf. ib.: se ipsum ‥ decerpebat); quidam [heremite] noxie titillationis hora se vepribus ‥ undique ~iandos ingerebant Gir. GE II 2 p. 176; parentes ejus ejulabant, ~iabant capillos Mir. J. Bev. C 329; ~iantem vestes suas Canon. S. Osm. 42 (v. furiosus 1).  c 1259 reddidit ‥ quasdam alias litteras ‥ que ibidem ~iate fuerunt et dampnate ‥ per ‥ clericos de cancellaria regis Cl 261; 1317 quasdam earum [sc. litterarum] furore rabido ~iaverunt (Lit. Papae) Mon. Hib. & Scot. 198b.  d multis securium ictibus ‥ statuam ~iaverant W. Malm. GR II 169; 1510 ~iando fraccinas arbores (v. fraxinus 4). 2 (in var. non-physical senses): a to taunt (person). b to hurt deeply, torment (person or feelings). c to attack savagely, pull to pieces (book). a pueros stolidos, sanctum qui carpere vatem / et laniare student [cf. IV Reg. ii 23] Aldh. VirgV 293.  b 1073 id aetatis homo multis ‥ temptationibus ‥ intrinsecus ~iatur Lanfr. Ep. 43 (18); falsum ‘ave’ ‥ / cor revera sacrum plus laniat / quam cum rosam grando digladiat J. Howd. CA 105; amor, qui celer saucias / et cor suave lanias, / donans dulce suspirium Id. Cyth. 103. 2.  c [scripta] sicut nunc undique mordaci dente roduntur et ~iantur, sic dignis tunc demum laudibus ‥ extollentur Gir. Ep. 3 p. 174.