Word of the Day: ALIICIDE

ETYMOLOGY
from. Latin alius (another) + -icide (the killing of), in allusion to suicide

EXAMPLE
“… Would the Lord Chief Justice be at all surprised if one of his amiable and interesting, but insane, correspondents were to take a mad freak into her head some day, and commit suicide or allicide? If, instead of adorning the Queen’s Bench, he honoured the chair of an insurance company, what would he think of the rate of payment requisite on the lives of such persons going at large? …”

From:  Punch, or The London Charivari,
December 19, 1868
Look After Lunatics

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