hippophagistn.

1854 Ainsworth's Mag. 25 15 The Tartars are still well-known Hippophagists.

1885 P. L. Simmonds Animal Food Resources Different Nations i. 33 M. Decroix (a confirmed hippophagist in France for twenty years), argues strongly that diseased animals are not unwholesome.

1922 H. Peake Bronze Age & Celtic World v. 70 The subjugation of the horse would have rendered easier the domestication of cattle, which in turn changed them from hippophagists to beef-eaters.

1990 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Jan. He knows the inside stories of the shortages of milk and beef, and why hippophagists turn to Polish horsemeat.

2013 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 21/6 By the 20th century many British towns had horse meat butchers to supply ‘kicker eaters’ (Yorkshire slang for hippophagists).

1859 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 15 May 6/5 This was a surfeit of Mayors that one would have scarcely expected anywhere short of a hippophagistic establishment.

1867 Fun 4 May 79/1 He ate, and ate, the flavour seemed Nicer by far than beef or mutton; And little of the cost he dreamed, Hippophagistic glutton!

1878 Graphic 11 May 471/2 Ten years ago.., a grand hippophagistic banquet was held at the Langham hotel, when, with the exception of the fish, every of the extensive menu..was entirely of horseflesh, or had a horsey element in it.

1881 Graphic 10 Sept. 286 Sausage-makers of hippophagistical tendencies.