Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Tritáre, v. a.
1. to crumble, to grind, to mince, to cut in small bits; 2. to ponder, to consider,to weigh in one's mind, to sift, to scan, to examine;3. to distinguish, divide.
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tritare: to mince, to slice, to shied, to bruise, to crumble or to weare veny small. Also to teare into ragges. Also to grinde corne. Also to thresh corne.