vulpicidismn.
The practice of fox-killing.
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1865 Murray's Handbk. Russia, etc. 44 Vulpecidism is not here considered a crime, and many is the gallant fox who has fallen before the deadly barrel in a battue.
1880 Yorks. Post 24 May The discovery of a dastardly act of vulpecidism.
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