nonce-wd. [f. L. tempus, tempor- time + -CIDE.]
1. The ‘killing’ of time.
1851. Chambers’ Papers for People, IX. No. 72. 9. Short romantic stories, adaptable for purposes of temporicide.
1856. Grindon, Life, xxiv. (1875), 305. Pleasure … such as will outweigh whole nights of the mere temporicide popularly esteemed the beau idéal of pastime.
1894. Harvard Lampoon, XXVI. 1 March, 149. The Shooting Club is devoting its time to temporicide: viz., shooting at the clock.
2. One who ‘kills’ time.
a. 1876. M. Collins, Th. in Gard. (1880), II. 208. D., who would catch the tide, G., with his notions wide, Each is temporicide—Time’s reckless murderer.
