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equicide

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equicide (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 equicides)

1. The killing of a horse.
   • 1852 July, R. M. Richardson, “Men, Manners, and Mountains. Mounting the Righi, in Three Heats.”, in Sartain’s Magazine, volume XI, number 1, page 23, column 1:
     Before him lay extended the brown body of a donkey, whose broken lariot and fixed eye told the tale. I thought for a moment that its hoof was moving; but before a word had passed, all was still. […] / “Messieurs, it was not my fault. I told them at Weggis the animal was too small; but they forced him on me, saying that he was a convenient size. My legs touched ground. They said I should escape a fall. The donkey was hungry and emulous. I had no guide to restrain him; but I did not urge him. He weakened as he warmed. He drank of the cold rills. He brayed aloud. He passed the châlet with a snort;—he snorted out his breath. Ah, Messieurs! it is all over with him and me. How shall I get down to-morrow with a gout and no donkey? This air is sharpening it into rheumatism,” swore he with a German oath, as, resting on one leg, he / “Steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, / And bitterly thought of the morrow.” / “Rank equicide!” growled the Scot. “Puir mewel!” / By this time, the entire procession was gathered round the deceased.
   • 1997 November 30, Rutland Daily Herald, Rutland, Vt., page 103:
     Although small in stature, the Barb hosts a heart that is 50 percent than larger than a horse two hands taller. There is more oxygen in their bodies, so they can go longer, Fusco explains. They can go 100 miles and be fresh the next day. Ultimately, the ponies paid a price for their size and endurance – when government troops managed to catch up with them, they systematically destroyed the sturdy steeds. General Custer ordered the slaughter of 850 head, until his men were literally sickened by the sound of the screams. Fourteen hundred died at the hand of like-minded General McKenzie “so the Indians wouldn’t get hold of them,” Fusco says. / Biologically speaking, it was a fairly successful equicide. Less than a year ago, the breed was considered extinct, the bloodlines thoroughly compromised.
   • 2015, Adrienne A. Gavin, “‘I saw a great deal of trouble amongst the horses in London’: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty and the Victorian Cab Horse”, in Adrienne A. Gavin and Andrew F. Humphries, editors, Transport in British Fiction: Technologies of Movement, 1840–1940, part I, “Transport in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction, 1840–1880”, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:
2. One who or that which kills a horse.
   • 1840 June, Dragsman, “Another Chapter on Driving”, in The Sportsman (Second Series), volume II, number VI, London: […] the Office, […], page 407:
     Fathers of families with corpulent wives and a numerous progeny, never heed the torture they impose upon the unhappy animal but they one and all crowd into the feeaton with a turn over seat and drive away with their families to Clapton, Hackney, Turnham Green or Bow—in short wherever their country box may be situated. That diminutive quadruped, the pony, too, is enlisted in the barbarous cause, and is made, now-a-days, to do the duty of a dray-horse: it is really monstrous to see the work they are called upon to perform. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should look to this. The heartless drivers of these “_equicides_,” or horse-killing carriages know little and care less about rotatory motion,—they are not aware that the smaller a wheel is in circumference the heavier is the draft. The ladies, poor souls, imagine that because the wheels are small, the carriage must be light;

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