hippophagism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From hippophage +‎ -ism.

Noun[edit]

hippophagism (uncountable)

  1. The eating of horsemeat.
    • 1870, James Russell Lowell, “Witchcraft”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, pages 109–110:
      In Germany, he [Satan] has a horse's and not a cloven foot, because the horse was a frequent pagan sacrifice, and therefore associated with devil-worship under the new dispensation. Hence the horror of hippophagism which some French gastronomes are striving to overcome.
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