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tó-teran

  • verb [ strong ]
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tó-teran, p. -tær, pl. -tǽron; pp. -toren
To tear to pieces
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  • Ic tótere

    lanio,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 24;
    • Zup. 137, 2.

  • Tóteran

    discerpere,

    • Hpt. Gl. 520, 75.

  • Beón tótoren

    lacerari,

    • 527, 55.
lit. to tear to pieces a material
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  • Ðú tótǽre (conscidisti) mín hwíte hrægl,

    • Ps. Th. 29, 11.

  • Hé ðæs beran ceaflas tótær,

    • Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 15.

  • Hé ðone pistol tótær,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 122, 30.

  • Hé tótær his tunecan,

    • 450, 21.

  • Hí tótǽron heora reáf,

    • 454, 11.

  • Fýrene næddran ðæt folc tótǽron,

    • Num. 21, 6.

  • Swilce he tótǽre sum eáðelíc ticcen

    quasi hoedum in frusta discerpens,

    • Jud. 14, 6.
metaph. of violent feeling or action, to tear to pieces, to harass, distract, destroy
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  • Gýtsung ealle middaneardes rícu tótyrþ

    auaritia universa mundi regna discerpserit,

    • Scint. 99, 8.

  • Welan ða sáwla tóteraþ mid pricungum mislícra geðohta,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 88, 22.

  • His æfterfolgeras feówertiéne geár ðisne middangeard tótugon and tótǽron

    (dilaniaverunt),

    • Ors. 3, 11;
    • Swt. 142, 24.

  • Be góde óþres ná sáriga ðú, for nánes gesun[d]fulnysse ðú sí tótoren

    de bono alterius non doleas, nullius prosperitate lacereris

    • Scint. 77, 9.

  • Hit ongeat his láre swíþe tótorene . . . se wísdóm sǽde ðæt his gyngran hæfdon híne swá tótorenne,

    • Bt. 3, 1;
    • Fox 4, 31-6, 2.
    Wolde he teteren roted fleshs . . . auh tetereð and tolimeð cwike fleschs,
    • A. R. 84, 5-8.

  • Anne curtel þe wes swiðe totoren,

    • Laym. 4994.

  • Our lordes body they totere.

    • Chauc. C. T. Group C. 474.
Cf. Goth. dis-tairan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tó-teran.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/30887.

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