† intertearv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To tear or rend mutually.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > tear [verb (transitive)]
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renta1325
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to tear at1848
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xi. 250 All are pleased to see them [beasts]..enter-teare one an other.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. v. 9) The wicked are apt (as dogs) to intertear and worry one another.
1649 S. Clarke P. Martyr in Lives Fathers (1854) 582 Rather to hazard the loss of his life, than to suffer Christians thus to intertear one another.
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