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canicidal en · ADJ

Etymology

From canicide + -al.

Meanings

1. Pertaining or inclined to canicide.
   • Dog Mutton.—The Journal of Commerce, world-renowned for its canicidal propensities, seems ambitious of an equally wide-spread canivorous reputation. It is not enough for that print that poor Tray be killed—it wants him to be eaten as well. 1847 December 28, Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, volume XIII, number 4074, Buffalo, N.Y., column 2:
   • The canicidal properties of this modern reviver of the Cynophontis [a festival in Argos where dogs were killed] are well known. 1838, [Laughton Osborn], The Vision of Rubeta, an Epic Story of the Island of Manhattan, Boston, Mass., page 52:
   • Echoing the canine theme of the new Mexican hit Amores Perros, Bong Joon-ho’s Barking Dogs Never Bite is a dark, twisted comedy about a deadbeat college lecturer who becomes obsessed with the relentless yapping of a neighbor’s pooch — and sets out to silence the animal once and for all. Set in a high-rise Seoul apartment building, the film is one of several canicidal tales featured in this year’s festival. 2001 April 27, Steven Rea, “‘Action Asia,’ a set of fast, twisty, violent thrillers from the Far East”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 172d year, number 331, Philadelphia, Pa., page W22:

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