[f. L. fēli-, fēles cat + -CIDE 2.] The action of killing a cat, cat-slaying.
1832. Southey, Corresp. with C. Bowles (1881), 259. You deserve to be haunted by the ghost of Merlin for those repeated acts of felicide which you seem to feel no remorse for.
1836. Tait’s Mag., III. 568. He hurled it, with premeditated felicide, in the direction of his supreme abomination.
1868. Morn. Star, 25 Jan. One poor woman … confessed to having committed an act of felicide.
