malicide

English

Noun

malicide (countable and uncountable, plural malicides)

1. (historical) The killing of a heretic, especially in reference to the killing of Christians.
   • 2008, Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence. The History of a Dangerous Idea. Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, page 33:

     In fact, by the eleventh century, a term was invented for killing non-Christians, since this was not to be considered homicide. It was malicide, Latin for the killing of a bad person.

Anagrams

• limacide