Obs. Forms: 1 tintreʓ, -a, tinterʓ, 3 tintreo, -he, tintreow. [OE. tintreʓ str. neut., tintreʓa wk. masc. The second element is the same as in OE. treʓa, ON. tregi wk. masc., Goth. trigo wk. fem., grief, woe, affliction, OE. treʓian, ON. trega, OS. tregan to grieve, afflict. The first part is uncertain; Sievers, on metrical grounds, holds the vowel to be long, tíntreʓa.] Torment, torture.
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., I. xii. § 4. Þonne he þara manna tintreʓo oferhierde.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. x. 28. Ða sauel & lic-homa losiʓe vel fordoa in tinterʓo vel cursung. Ibid., Luke xvi. 23. In helle ahof ða eʓo his miððy were in tinterʓum.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., ibid. Þa he on þam tintreʓum wæs.
a. 1023. Wulfstan, Hom., xl. (Napier), 185. In þa ecan tintreʓu.
a. 1225. Leg. Kath., 41. Wið stronge tintreohen & licomliche pinen.
a. 1225. Juliana, 18. For teone ne for tintreow þat ȝe mahen timbrin.
a. 1240. Sawles Warde, in Cott. Hom., 261. Eorðliche tintreohen.
Hence † Tintreghe (in 2 tintraȝon) v. trans., to torment, torture.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 13. Swa þet heo eow tintraȝed and heow iswenchet.
