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bovicidal en · ADJ

Etymology

From bovicide + -al.

Meanings

1. Pertaining or inclined to bovicide.
   • But if the social scientists and educators undertake such a project jointly in a spirit of experimentation and with bovicidal collaboration against the accumulated sacred cows, the possibilities of success are greatly enhanced. 1964, The School Dropout, National Education Association, page 100:
   • Exodus 21:28–36 deals with cases involving cattle that are homicidal or bovicidal. 2015, Elaine Adler Goodfriend, “Leviticus 22:24: A Prohibition of Gelding for the Land of Israel?”, in Roy E. Gane, Ada Taggar-Cohen, editors, Current Issues in Priestly and Related Literature: The Legacy of Jacob Milgrom and Beyond, SBL Press, →ISBN, page 72:
   • Particular rules: a famous, and much discussed, example from Biblical law is the rule relating to the bovicidal ox: Exodus 21:35, in terms of content, is identical to paragraph 53 of the laws of Eshnunna. 1980, Bernard S. Jackson, “History, Dogmatics and Halakhah”, in Jewish Law in Legal History and the Modern World, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 5:

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