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Webster 1913 Edition
Giganticide
Gi-gan′ti-cide
,Noun.
[.
gigas
, -antis
, giant + caedere
to kill.] The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant.
Hallam.
Definition 2024
giganticide
giganticide
English
Noun
giganticide (plural giganticides)
- The killing of a giant.
- 1864, William Evans Burton, The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor
- As they scarce make a capital crime of infanticide, / There can't be any harm in a little giganticide.
- 1864, William Evans Burton, The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor
- One who kills a giant, giant-killer.
- 1863, Theodore Winthrop, Life in the Open Air
- ...tore through the briers, and plunged through the punk of trees older than history, now rotting where they fell, slain by Time the Giganticide.
- 1887, George Dawson, Georges St Clair, Biographical Lectures
- ...the wonderful tales of the giganticide of old, of the German mythology, and our own rich nursery lore...
- 1863, Theodore Winthrop, Life in the Open Air