vaccicide

Definitions

The killing of a cow.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Cow killing in Cashmere is punished as a worse crime than homicide! Travellers to Cashmere in those days — entering the valley by the Shupeyon route — will perhaps remember⟳ the skeleton of a man hanging in rusty chains from a prominent bough of the first large tree which met the eye on emerging from the Heerpore pass⟳. That wretch was hanged for vaccicide…a terrible example of Maharajah Golaub Sing’s Draconian laws!”

“He has a great reverence for the bovine species, for Apis is sacred to the Kashmiri…and in Kashmir “vaccicide” is a capital crime.”

“Anthony Burgess is not confessing to the crime of culpable vaccicide. Is he then using jargon? He has no need⟳ to give⟳ a show⟳ of learning; he might admit⟳, though, that the sayers of “vaccicidal,” if they existed, would be using jargon.”

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