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English
Etymology
From canicide + -al.
Adjective
canicidal (comparative more canicidal, superlative most canicidal)
- 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, 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.