Definition of "tearme"

[…] some terrible bombarder of tearmes, as wilde as wildfire, that at the first flash of his fury, would leaue me thunder-stricken vpon the ground, or at the last volley of his outrage, would batter me to dust, and ashes.

1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation or A New Prayse of the Old Asse‎, London: John Wolfe, page 8

So from thenceforth, when loue he to her made, / VVith better tearmes ſhe did him entertaine, / VVhich gaue him hope, and did him halfe perſvvade, / That he iunb time her ioyaunce ſhould obtaine.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, stanza 7, page 494

this tearme ( hotchpot ) is but a tearme similitudinary, and is as much to say , as to put the lands in frankmarriage and the other lands in fee simple together

1628, Edw[ard] Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers