vaccicide

Etymology
Formed in English as. Compare the earlier 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1)  The killing of a.
 * 2) * 1887, David John Falconer Newall, The Highlands of India II: Field Sports and Travel in India, sect. i, ch. iv, p. 49:
 * "en"

- Cow killing in Cashmere is punished as a worse crime than homicide! Travellers to Cashmere in those days — entering the valley by the Shupeyon route — will perhaps remember the skeleton of a man hanging in rusty chains from a prominent bough of the first large tree which met the eye on emerging from the Heerpore pass. That wretch was hanged for vaccicide…a terrible example of Maharajah Golaub Sing’s Draconian laws!


 * 1) * 1900, Ashley Carus-Wilson, Irene Petrie: Missionary to Kashmir (3rd ed., 1901), ch. xi, p. 249:
 * "en"

- He has a great reverence for the bovine species, for Apis is sacred to the Kashmiri…and in Kashmir “vaccicide” is a capital crime.



Translations

 * Finnish: lehmän tappo