prolicide
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin proles (“offspring”) + caedere (“kill”). Equivalent to + -cide.
Noun[edit]
prolicide (countable and uncountable, plural prolicides)
- (uncountable) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth[1823].
- 1827, Robley Dunglison, Syllabus of the Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, page 93:
- PROLICIDE […] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.
- (countable) One who commits prolicide.
- 1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and State Medicine, page 283:
- Perhaps they had accommodated the foregoing statement to the casuistical axiom, non homo est, qui non futurus est, which is a very agreeable one to prolicides.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “prolicide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.