canicidal

English

Etymology

From canicide +‎ -al.

Adjective

canicidal (comparative more canicidal, superlative most canicidal)

1. Pertaining or inclined to canicide.
   • 1838, [Laughton Osborn], The Vision of Rubeta, an Epic Story of the Island of Manhattan, Boston, Mass., page 52:

     The canicidal properties of this modern reviver of the Cynophontis [a festival in Argos where dogs were killed] are well known.

   • 1847 December 28, Buffalo Commercial Advertiser‎^[1], volume XIII, number 4074, Buffalo, N.Y., column 2:

     Dog Mutton.—The Journal of Commerce, world-renowned for its canicidal propensities, seems ambitious of an equally wide-spread canivorous reputation. It is not enough for that print that poor Tray be killed—it wants him to be eaten as well.

   • 2001 April 27, Steven Rea, “‘Action Asia,’ a set of fast, twisty, violent thrillers from the Far East”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 172d year, number 331, Philadelphia, Pa., page W22:

     Echoing the canine theme of the new Mexican hit Amores Perros, Bong Joon-ho’s Barking Dogs Never Bite is a dark, twisted comedy about a deadbeat college lecturer who becomes obsessed with the relentless yapping of a neighbor’s pooch — and sets out to silence the animal once and for all. Set in a high-rise Seoul apartment building, the film is one of several canicidal tales featured in this year’s festival.