Lexicographical Neighbors of Raticide
Literary usage of Raticide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Language in the Making: A Word Study by Wilhelmina M. Thoma (1922)
"Many of these new terms, like raticide, are compounded of Latin or Greek elements.
raticide is a substance that kills (cide) rats. Other name givers use the ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... of truth declare) The caitiff raticide conceiv'da prayer. Hear, Jove! whose name
my hards and I adore, As much at least as any god's, or more; ..."
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