Vaccicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈvæksɪsaɪd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Vaccicide is a noun meaning (rare) The killing of a cow.
Meaning
(rare) The killing of a cow.
Example Sentences
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.
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!
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vaccimulgence, vaccinia, vaccinine, vaccina, retrovaccination, retrovaccine.
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