laniate

First attested in 1721; borrowed from Latin laniātus, perfect passive participle of laniō (“to butcher, tear into pieces”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

laniate (third-person singular simple present laniates, present participle laniating, simple past and past participle laniated)

1. (archaic, formal, rare) To tear into pieces.

• “laniate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Natalie, antliae, taenial

laniāte

1. vocative masculine singular of laniātus