Lexic.us

Definition of Infanticide

1. Noun. A person who murders an infant.

Definition of Infanticide

1. n. The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.

2. n. One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.

Definition of Infanticide

1. Noun. The murder of an infant. ¹

2. Noun. The murder of a child by a parent; filicide. ¹

3. Noun. The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide. ¹

4. Noun. (zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Infanticide

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Infanticide

1. The killing of infants at birth or soon after. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infanticide

Literary usage of Infanticide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1911)
"AN p.boz Easton, JA Contributions to legal medicine: being observations on the medical jurisprudence of infanticide, with especial reference to a case in ..."

2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"FEMALE infanticide IN THE PUNJAB. BY CAPT. AJ O'BRIEN, CIE, ... I wish to lay before the Society a series of cases of female infanticide that do not depend ..."

3. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"The custom of infanticide in most cases requires that the ... of tribes inhabiting the Australian continent.1" That the custom of infanticide is generally ..."

4. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1908)
"Female infanticide is sometimes the only practice Female infanticide of infanticide in ... Exposure is an interesting modification of infanticide proper, ..."

5. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology by Henry Cadwalader Chapman (1892)
"BY infanticide is meant, medico-legally, the complete destruction of the new-born child, it being immaterial whether the child is murdered immediately or a ..."

6. Christian Missions and Social Progress: A Sociological Study of Foreign Missions by James Shepard Dennis (1897)
"The question as to the extent of infanticide in India at the present time is more difficult to determine, as under the ban of British law it is carried on ..."

7. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"There are two chief motives for infanticide, which operate separately or together, namely, fear of dishonor, and poverty. We shall speak first of the former ..."

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