hosticide
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɒstɪsaɪd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑstɪsaɪd/
- Hyphenation: hos‧ti‧cide
Etymology
From Latin hostis (“enemy”) + English -cide or Latin caedere (“to kill”).
Noun
hosticide (uncountable)
- The act of killing an enemy.
- 1666, William Austin, Ἐπιλοιμια ἐπη. Or, the Anatomy of the Pestilence, page 92:
- VVith vinegar make ſpear the ſpoil divide,
And lancepreſado be to hoſticide:
- 1822, Robert Carr, Blighted Ambition, page 352:
- how can I be safe when so many are privy to our hosticide, as your Lordship terms the death of Overbury.
- 1888, W. H. Bakewell, Vision of Faith in the Dream of Time, page 187:
- Oh let me in, or witness suicide,
Or see me turn on thee a hosticide!
- 2014, William Walker, Antiformalist, Unrevolutionary, Illiberal Milton, page 12:
- For the argument that Milton advocated not regicide but tyrannicide and hosticide, see also Dzelzainis, 'Milton and the Regicide'.
- 2015, Alexander Raju, And Still Plays the Abyssinian Damsel on her Dulcimer, page 240:
- I was curious about the fate of Ras Mikael who came to the palace of lyoas as a guest and committed the hosticide.
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