Meaning of felinicide | Babel Free

Definitions

The killing of a cat.

countable, nonce-word, uncountable

Examples

“Care killed the cat, for instance ; but Care was not guilty of felinicide.”

“If he hated cats, there had been a dozen contrivances in the attic to suit⟳ the purpose of felinicide.”

“After the pastor died, Uncle moved in with his widow sister; and as soon as little Orlando initiated his felinicides, filling the house with pots of cat organs and cremating the remains in the backyard, his uncle started to call⟳ him Buchenwald (pronounced Butchanval), which finally slimmed down to Butcha.”

“Unable to safeguard the last⟳ stragglers of various endangered species, the worldwide ecological community is, in some areas, attempting full-on felinicide. People bomb cats' lairs with targeted viruses and deadly poisons.”

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