Equicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Equicide is a noun meaning The killing of a horse.
Meaning
The killing of a horse.
More Meanings
- One who or that which kills a horse.
Example Sentences
[…]second wife suddenly rudely raped by a centaur[…]shot the horrid horseman it was excusable equicide[…]harmless homicide!
But had Mary shot Pond Pen, the things that alleged race horse had done to her would certainly have caused any fair judge to pronounce Pond Pen’s violent passing justifiable equicide.
For, as soon as the serious matters of “settin’ them up” had been attended to, the first court trial in the history of the Territory—“for wilful and malicious equicide”—would get under way.
The final four stories in New Adventures were conceived and written as a series. In each of them Ellery [Queen] solves a crime—homicide, attempted equicide, jewel theft—that is connected with a major sporting event.
Word Forms
- equicides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include elephanticide, dukicide, regicide, senicide, hereticide, felicide.
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