Asinicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Asinicide is a noun meaning The killing of an idiot.
Meaning
The killing of an idiot.
More Meanings
- The killing (including by self) of an ass or donkey.
Example Sentences
Asinicide shouldn't be considered a crime, right?š
Last night a mule belonging to Maria Long, a negress, in the northern part of town, went wild from some cause. The mule kicked the stable all to pieces, jumped out of the wreck, ran to Cross creek, jumped in and drowned himself. Was it a case of asinicide?
For this reason this rustic little destroyer of humanity deserves to suffer not only the censure of the Porcian and Semprorian laws, but also the axes of the tribunesā prison as well, since he would have organized and presented everything aptly and wittily enough had he, being ill-advised in his asinicide,³ⓠleft those whips and burning wounds out of the revision of his story.
The Professor of Logic next door has been making the heavens blush with the brimstone profanity of his enquiries as to what-the-polysyllabic-Hades else we could think it was open for. Iām on the verge of a nervous breakdown as the result of having during the last fortnight no less than eighteen times been (this is growing into a German sentence), by mail, telephone and personal call, ācontacted.ā Next time it happens, justifiable homicide (or asinicide) will be enacted (by me).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hereticide, senicide, amicide, hosticide, regicide, parenticide.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary Ā· Original source Ā· CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.