单词 | vacci- |
释义 | vacci-comb. form 1. Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘of or relating to cows’. vaccicide n. Brit. /ˈvaksᵻsʌɪd/ , U.S. /ˈvæksəˌsaɪd/ the crime of killing a cow; (also in later use) the crime of killing a woman likened to a cow (see cow n.1 4b).Chiefly with reference to India, where cows are sacred to Hindus and harming them is often prohibited.ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] slaughtera1300 to make larder ofa1330 murdering?a1475 fall1575 butchering1609 ovicide1828 felicide1832 poultrycide1841 piscicide1847 vealing1847 kill1850 slaughterage1854 birdicide1862 apricide1864 insecticide1865 vulpicidism1865 vulpicide1873 serpenticide1882 tauricide1882 vaccicide1887 leporicide1914 culling1938 cull1958 1887 D. J. F. Newall Highlands India II. i. 49 That wretch was hanged for vaccicide! 1900 M. C. Wilson Irene Petrie xi. 249 In Kashmir vaccicide is a capital crime. 2017 MailOnline (Nexis) 21 Mar. It wasn't until somewhere outside Nuneaton that I started plotting the vaccicide. vaccimulgence n. Brit. /ˌvaksᵻˈmʌldʒ(ə)ns/ , U.S. /ˌvæksəˈməldʒəns/ rare milking of cows.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking milkingOE stroking1587 milching1648 vaccimulgence1796 1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. 5 Nov. (1956) I. 251 Will you try to look out for a fit servant for us—simple of heart, physiognomically handsome, & scientific in vaccimulgence? That last word is a new one... Vaccimulgence!—I am pleased with the word. 1984 ‘M. Innes’ Carson's Conspiracy x. 112 Mrs Cabon, so prodigal of potatoes and the products of vaccimulgence, is dotty in her own way. 2. Forming terms with the sense ‘of or relating to a vaccine or vaccination’. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > vaccine or antiserum > [adjective] vaccigenous1868 vaccinogenic1881 live1909 1868 E. C. Seaton Handbk. Vaccination ii. 25 The distinction..was known in Buckinghamshire, where the vaccigenous complaint in the horse, from the singularity of making the hair erect, was called a ‘scratchy heel’. 1889 Lancet 12 Oct. 753/2 No attention was paid to the quality of the lymph imported either from the national or foreign vaccigenous institutions. 1909 E. E. Austen tr. É. Burnet Campaign against Microbes 221 The vaccigenous calf has become a popular institution in France. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < comb. form1796 |
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