vulpicideとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin vulpēs or vulpis (“fox”) + -cide.

発音

• IPA: /ˈvʌlpɪsaɪd/
• ハイフネーション: vul‧pi‧cide

名詞

vulpicide (countable and uncountable, plural vulpicides)

1. (countable) Someone who kills foxes other than by hunting them with hounds.
   • 1910, Owen Jones, Marcus Woodward, A gamekeeper's note-book:

     Some of the foxes found dead on railway lines, by the way, have been put there after death by vulpicides.

   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 121:

     ‘Seven months I've been worriting my guts out in London, and all on the off-chance of getting a seat in the office of that sanctimonious old vulpicide.’

2. The killing of a fox.
   • 1846 July, The Foreign Quarterly Review‎, number 74:

     […] he who brought in the head of a wolf or a fox was entitled to a reward, for the crime of vulpicide, so justly odious in the nineteenth century, was actually encouraged in the dark ages!

   • 1862, The Quarterly Review‎, volume 111, number 222:

     Nowhere is the crime of vulpicide more odious. An ardent sportsman, not many years since, is said at some public meeting to have thus tersely expressed himself:—‘Sir, I believe that a man who would kill a fox would kill his own father.’ This may appear strong language, but it shows the detestation in which the offence is held.

   • 1868, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History‎:

     Prove by the rules of Aristotle “that vulpicide is murder,” and is punishable accordingly by the laws of Squirearchy.

関連する語

• vulpicidal