p. -tær, pl. -tǽron; pp. -toren To tear to pieces :-- Ic tótere lanio, Ælfc. Gr. 24; Zup. 137, 2. Tótera- discerpere, Hpt. Gl. 520, 75. Beón tótoren lacerari, 527, 55. I lit. to tear to pieces a material :-- Ðú tótǽre (conscidisti) mín hwíte ; rægl, Ps. Th. 29, II. 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 beora reáf, 454, II. Fýrene næddran ðæt folc tótǽron, Num. 21, 6. Swilce he tótǽre sum eáðelíc ticcen quasi hoedum in frusta discerpens, Jud. 14, 6. II. metaph. of violent feeling or action, to tear to pieces, to harass, distract, destroy :-- Gýtsung ealle middaneardes rícu tótyrþ auaritia universa mundi regna discerpserit, Scint. 99, 8. Welan ða íáwla tðteraþ mid pricungum misllcra gedohta, Homl. Th. ii. 88, 22. His xfterfolgeras feówertiéne gear ðisne mio'dangeard tótugon and tðtǽron (dilaniaverunt), Ors. 3, n ; Swt. 142, 24. Be góde ðþtes ná sáriga ðB, for nánes gesun[d]fulnysse ðú st tátoren de bono alterius nan doleas, nullius prosperitate lacereris Scint. 77, 9. Hit ongeat his láre swíþe tótorene . . . se wíídðm sǽde ðæt his gyngran hæfdon híne swá tðtorenne, Bt. 3, l; Fox 4, 31-6, 2. [Wolde he teteren roted fleshs . . . ann 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.] to-teran