Meaning of caticide | Babel Free

Definitions

The killing of a cat.

countable, nonce-word, uncountable

Examples

“Mewing as if ſhe meant Forgiveness To him that wrong'd her with his Heavineſs, And in that caſe ſhe pin'd and dy'd, He ſhould not be arraign'd or try'd, On her account, for Caticide,[…]”

“That every body who drinks the London water does eventually die is such a startling fact that we wonder that every family does not immediately plug up its cistern, cut off the connection with the company's main, and give the turncock into custody, as an accessory before the fact, in a long list of homicides, femicides, girlicides, boyicides, doggicides, caticides and horseicides.”

“Issuing strong injunctions against all caticide, we kept the playful and very tame animal with us until it was time to move;[…]”

“About the same time Henry the Fowler, the German king, imposed a heavy fine for 'caticide'.”

“Or a month later, when, while coming back from an upsetting pet-loss support group meeting, I committed accidental automotive catticide.”

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