[ad. med.L. ūxōricīd-ium: see prec. and -CIDE 2.] The murder of one’s wife.
1854. Fraser’s Mag., xlix. 397. Such a detail of premeditated murders, suicides,… uxoricides, and fratricides.
1861. Goldw. Smith, Doctr. Hist. Progress, 39. They can embrace … the butcherly vagrancy laws of a Tudor King, his brutal uxoricides, his persecutions.
1887. Fortn. Rev., Nov., 659. Adultery, incest, uxoricide, usually by poison, prostitution, are terribly frequent [in Sicily].
Hence Uxoricidal a., of, pertaining or tending to, uxoricide.
1871. Guardian, 28 Dec., 6/3. Bluebeard has continued his uxoricidal practices ever since.
1891. Cent. Dict. (citing Cornhill Mag.).
