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▪ I. serpenticide1|sɜːˈpɛntɪsaɪd|
[f. serpent n.: see -cide1.]
A slayer of serpents.
1801G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ (1818) II. 294 note, Vishnu, much of whose character has been borrowed from old tradition respecting the predicted Serpenticide. 1817S. R. Maitland Dissertation 31, I have before mentioned Apollo as a king: I must now say something of him as a Serpenticide.
▪ II. serˈpenticide2
[f. serpent n.: see -cide2.]
Killing of serpents.
1882Field 3 June 733, I think we must acquit the gentle deer of this charge of habitual serpenticide. |