vulpicide
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun One who kills a fox, except in hunting; also, the act of so killing a fox.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A fox-killer.
- noun The killing of a fox or of foxes.
Examples
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In Leicestershire he would be regarded as a hunting man, while in his own district he is known as a vulpicide, for Reynard is seldom, if ever, found in his coverts.
The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
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In such a county as Leicestershire, foxes are not "accidentally" killed, but when so, what bewailings over the "late lamented!" what anathemas upon the villain's head who is suspected of "vulpicide"!
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On the way home the Padre shot a fox – that is, he says, he "committed vulpicide."
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"Did you say vulpicide?" she asks, with a sweet smile.
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As the vulpicide, on the afternoon of the day of the deed, went along the corridor to his room, one maid-servant whispered to another, and the poor victim of an imperfect sight heard the words — “That’s he as shot the fox!”
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Imagine the feelings of an English squire, M.H. of his county, loving dogs and horses as some women love children, and regarding poaching and vulpicide as crimes almost as bad as murder -- imagine his feelings when his beautiful wife, grave and simple, should say at a hunt-dinner, "I do not like riding."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
Note
The word 'vulpicide' comes from the Latin words 'vulpis' ("fox") and the suffix '-cide' ("killer").
