单词 | infanticide |
释义 | infanticiden.1 One who kills an infant. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > of child or infant infanticide1680 1680 Potter Christophalgia 52 (T.) Christians accounted those to be infanticides..who did but only expose their own infants. 1834 Blackwood's Mag. 36 360/2 The regicide [Lady Macbeth] lied against herself, in saying that under any circumstances she could have been an infanticide. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). infanticiden.2 a. The killing of infants, esp. the custom of killing new-born infants, which prevailed in primitive societies, and was common in the ancient world. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of infants infanticide1656 child murder1729 tecnoctonia1842 neonaticide1969 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Infanticide, a slaying or killing of Infants, child-murthering; such was that of Herod. a1779 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (new ed.) ix. ii, in Wks. (1788) IV. 157 The madness did not cease to rage till it terminated in Infanticide, or in offering up to their grim idols..the Children of their bowels. 1809 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 2 58 Pomarre has..promised the missionaries to abolish infanticide and human sacrifices. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. iv. 27 Infanticide..was..admitted among the Greeks, being sanctioned, and in some cases enjoined..by the ideal legislations of Plato and Aristotle, and by the actual legislations of Lycurgus and Solon. 1897 Westm. Rev. June 290 The exigencies of primitive savage life made daughters a source of weakness to the tribe, and accordingly female infanticide was largely practised. b. spec. The crime of murdering an infant after its birth, perpetrated by or with the consent of its parents, esp. the mother. ΚΠ 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xiii. §6 Infanticide, that is to say homicide committed upon a new born child with the consent of its father and mother. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Sept. 1/2 For 86 cases of murder and 77 of infanticide only 72 persons were committed for trial. 1890 Standard 20 Feb. If, then, it were made practically impossible for them to hide the fact of their shame..we must face the probability of a considerable increase of infanticide. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < |
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