v. Obs. [OE. torendan, f. TO-2 + rendan to REND. So OFris. to-, te-renda.] trans. To rend in pieces.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Mark xiv. 63. Se heh ðonne sacerd torende woedo his.
a. 1000. Ags. Ps. (Th.), cxxiii[i]. 7. Grin bið on sadan grame torænded.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 362. He … þet to-tereð his olde kurtel, & to-rendeð þe olde pilche of his deadliche uelle.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 2145. Lym fro lym hym al to-rent.
1388. Wyclif, Matt. xxvii. 51. The veil of the temple was to-rent in twey parties. Ibid., Acts xiv. 13. Whanne the apostlis … herden this, thei to-renten her cootis.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, VIII. xiii. Hir clothes to rent, bedewed with weepyng.
1596. Danett, trans. Comines (1614), 266. Their nauie all to rent and torne.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 306. He … plucked the other out of his place, and all to rent his casule, Chimer, and Rochet.
Hence † To-rent ppl. a., † To-rending vbl. sb.
1393. Wyclif, Isa. xxxvi. 22. Eliachym … and Sobna … entriden with to-rent clothis to Ezechie. Ibid., Nahum iii. 1. Wo to the citee of bloodis, al of leesyng, ful of to-reendyng [dilaceratione].
