Equicidal

Quick meaning: Equicidal is an adjective meaning (rare) Of or pertaining to equicide.

Meaning

(rare) Of or pertaining to equicide.

Example Sentences

It’s just that extremely few trainers and riders will consider it anything less than equicidal.

This equicidal virus, which causes equine and human outbreaks, also has clinical characteristics which distinguish it from the sylvatic type.

The equicidal bull was finished in due course like his fellows, and at length but one remained, a brave, tough youngster that played the game vigorously, but yet without great malice, and to lamentably futile purpose.

Throughout the first part of the fourteenth century there are examples of actions against blacksmiths for killing horses vi et armis and contra pacem but it seems more likely these are actions for carelessness in shoeing the horse rather than that they indicate a group of equicidal tradesmen.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deicidal, equine, regicidal, felicidal, senicidal, equinoctial.

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