Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fox-killer.
- noun The killing of a fox or of foxes.
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 Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
kills foxes .
Etymologies
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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. Alice M. Hayes 1873
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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."
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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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!"
Phineas Redux 1873
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"Did you say vulpicide?" she asks, with a sweet smile.
Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) William Black 1869
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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!"
Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848
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The farmers, to the anger of conservationists, say that sea eagles have been targeting their lambs and destroying their already meagre income. fox hunting gentlemen persuaded farmers not to commit vulpicide by establishing a "poultry fund" whereby non-hunting farmers were compensated for livestock taken by foxes.
British Blogs 2008
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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!”
Phineas Redux 2004
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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 Various
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"You behold, madam, in that young man the moral effects of vulpicide.
Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) William Black 1869
qms commented on the word vulpicide
The woes of the gentry are multiplied;
And country house pastimes are stultified.
Laws new and obnoxious
Protect the damn foxes,
And limit the pleasures of vulpicide.
April 13, 2018