dilaniate/dɪˈleɪnieɪt/EtymologyFirst attested in 1535; Borrowed from Latin dīlāniātus, perfect passive participle of dīlāniō (“to dilacerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dis- + lāniō (“to tear to pieces”).dilaniate means to rend in pieces; to tear. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.dilaniate is pronounced /dɪˈleɪnieɪt/.verbTo 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 met half way, and complyed with one another in a gallant kind of freedome, though everie one bore his ”