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▪ I. infanticide1|ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd|
[a. F. infanticide (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. late L. infānticīda, f. infānt-em infant n.1 + cædĕre, -cīdĕre to kill: see -cide 1.]
One who kills an infant.
1680Potter Christophalgia 52 (T.) Christians accounted those to be infanticides..who did but only expose their own infants. 1834Blackw. Mag. XXXVI. 360/2 The regicide [Lady Macbeth] lied against herself, in saying that under any circumstances she could have been an infanticide.
attrib.1856Sat. Rev. II. 336/1 An infanticide mother.
▪ II. infanticide2|ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd|
[a. F. infanticide (Cotgr. 1611), ad. late L. infānticīd-ium (Tertull.), f. infānt-em infant n.1: see prec. and -cide 2.]
The killing of infants, esp. the custom of killing new-born infants, which prevailed in primitive societies, and was common in the ancient world.
1656Blount Glossogr., Infanticide, a slaying or killing of Infants, child-murthering; such was that of Herod. a1779Warburton Div. Legat. ix. ii. Wks. 1811 VI. 285 The madness did not cease to rage till it terminated in Infanticide, or in offering up to their grim idols..the Children of their bowels. 1809Southey in Q. Rev. II. 58 Pomarre has..promised the missionaries to abolish infanticide and human sacrifices. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. iv. II. 27 Infanticide..was..admitted among the Greeks, being sanctioned, and in some cases enjoined..by the ideal legislations of Plato and Aristotle, and by the actual legislations of Lycurgus and Solon. 1897Westm. Rev. June 290 The exigencies of primitive savage life made daughters a source of weakness to the tribe, and accordingly female infanticide was largely practised.
b. spec. The crime of murdering an infant after its birth, perpetrated by or with the consent of its parents, esp. the mother.
1789Bentham Legisl. xiii. §6 Infanticide, that is to say homicide committed upon a new born child with the consent of its father and mother. 1888Pall Mall G. 21 Sept. 1/2 For 86 cases of murder and 77 of infanticide only 72 persons were committed for trial. 1890Standard 20 Feb., If, then, it were made practically impossible for them to hide the fact of their shame..we must face the probability of a considerable increase of infanticide. |