feliciden.
/ˈfiːlɪsʌɪd/ The action of killing a cat, cat-slaying.
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slaughtera1300
to make larder ofa1330
murdering?a1475
fall1575
butchering1609
ovicide1828
felicide1832
poultrycide1841
piscicide1847
vealing1847
kill1850
slaughterage1854
birdicide1862
apricide1864
insecticide1865
vulpicidism1865
vulpicide1873
serpenticide1882
tauricide1882
vaccicide1887
leporicide1914
culling1938
cull1958
1832 R. Southey Let. in Corr. R. Southey with C. Bowles (1881) 259 Those repeated acts of felicide.
1836 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 3 568 He hurled it, with premeditated felicide, in the direction of his supreme abomination.
1868 Morning Star 25 Jan. One poor woman..confessed to having committed an act of felicide.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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