nonce-wd. [f. L. vir man, husband + -CIDE 2.] The slaying of men or of husbands.

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1624.  Heywood, Gunaik., IV. 223. These Amazons were by the Scythians called Aeorpata, which is as much as Viricidae, or man-killers. For Aeor signifies Vir, a man, and Pata, Occidere, to kill.

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1766.  G. Canning, Anti-Lucretius, I. 71.

        The impious DANAIDES, Grecian stories tell,
For barbarous viricide, condemn’d to hell.

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1887.  San Bernardino Daily Courier, 19 March, 5/2. A shooting row occurred in a saloon on Third street on Thursday night, in which a well-known woman figured as the would-be homicide or viricide.

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1921.  Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX), 13 July, 3/3. She asserts that at the time of the viricide, she was temporarily insane because of his cruelty.

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