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homicidal, a.|hɒmɪˈsaɪdəl|
[f. homicide + -al1. Late L. had homicīdālis.]
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by homicide; tending to or resulting in homicide; man-slaying; murderous. (Of persons and their acts, or of things personified.) homicidal insanity, homicidal mania: see quot. 1883.
1725Pope Odyss. iv. 718 The troop forth-issuing from the dark recess, With homicidal rage the king oppress. 1791Cowper Odyss. viii. 139 In aspect dread as homicidal Mars. 1847Tennyson Princ. Prol. 219 Some great Princess, six feet high, Grand, epic, homicidal. 1851Longfellow in Life (1891) II. 225 The firing of those homicidal guns. 1862Lytton Str. Story II. 8 No unfrequent illusion of homicidal maniacs. 1883A. S. Taylor Princ. Med. Jurispr. (ed. 3) II. 551 Homicidal mania or monomania is commonly defined to be a state of partial insanity, accompanied by an impulse to the perpetration of murder; hence it is sometimes called impulsive or paroxysmal mania.
Hence homiˈcidally adv., in a homicidal manner.
1893Daily News 29 Nov. 4/8 A verdict that the wound..was homicidally inflicted was returned. |