HOMICIDIOUSADJ.
pert. to homicide; tending to or resulting in homicide; man-slaying; murderous ...1632 rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin homicidium homicide, the act of killing a human being + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1632 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...An inhumane and homicidious Pope was Stephanus the seventh ..." From: The Totall Discourse, Of the Rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene Yeares Travayles, From Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. By: William Lithgow, 1632 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933
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