felinicide

English

Etymology

From feline +‎ -i- +‎ -cide.

Noun

felinicide (countable and uncountable, plural felinicides)

  1. (nonce word) The killing of a cat.
    Synonyms: ailurocide, caticide, catslaughter, felicide
    • 1899 December 16, The Outlook‎[1], volume 4, number 98, page 656:
      Care killed the cat, for instance ; but Care was not guilty of felinicide.
    • 1993, Susan Wilson Younkins, The Needlepoint Clock Mystery‎[2], Hagerstown, MD, →ISBN, page 55:
      If he hated cats, there had been a dozen contrivances in the attic to suit the purpose of felinicide.
    • 2002, Daniel Chavarría, Tango for a Torturer‎[3], New York: Akashic Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 181:
      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.
    • 2017, Abigail Tucker, The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World‎[4], Farmington Hills, MI: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 141:
      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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