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Definition of Infanticidal
1. a. Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.
Definition of Infanticidal
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to infanticide. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infanticidal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infanticidal
Literary usage of Infanticidal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"infanticidal Tendencies in Nursing Mothers Caused by Faulty Diet.—In another
class is to be placed the mother rats which destroy their young within a day or ..."
2. Travels Amongst the Todas: Or The Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India by William Elliot Marshall, George Uglow Pope (1873)
"... infanticidal Mother taken red- handed—Name this Child—Men's Names—Nicknames—
Women's Names—How married people call to one another—List of Relationships. ..."
3. The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by Edward Payson Evans (1906)
"... paid by the Viscount of Falaise ten sous and ten deniers tournois for the
execution of an infanticidal sow, and also ten sous tournois for a new glove. ..."
4. Indian Infanticide: Its Origin, Progress, and Suppression by John Cave-Browne (1857)
"THE PUNJAB : ITS infanticidal RACES. The Punjab: its geographical and civil
limits; its " daughter-skying" races— The ..."
5. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"Thus these infanticidal tribes let the others supply them with wires, much as we
of the South ... When ho gravely sympathised with the infanticidal tribes, ..."
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