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▪ I. giganticide1|dʒaɪˈgæntɪsaɪd| [f. L. gigant(i)-, gigās giant + -cide 1.] A giant-killer.
1806Southey Let. 17 June in Life & Corr. III. xii. 43 Jack the Giganticide's leathern bag. 1883Times 20 Dec. 9 The young preferred to live in Fairyland, among fairy godmothers, giganticides, genii good or bad. ▪ II. giganticide2|dʒaɪˈgæntɪsaɪd| [f. as prec. + -cide 2.] The killing of giants.
1860in Worcester (citing Hallam.) a1876G. Dawson Serm. Disp. Points (1878) 184 The wonderful hero who ascended into an invisible land and took to giganticide. Hence gigantiˈcidal a.
1891S. Mostyn Curatica 55, I had become familiar in childhood with the giganticidal precocity of beanstalks. |