Word of the Day: NECATION

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin necation-, necatio (killing); from Latin necat-, past participial stem of necare (to kill); (from nec-, nex (death, violent death)) + ‑iō ‑(ion)

EXAMPLE
“… Yet such an inveterate poacher was he that at the next sessions he was “up” again for a like offence at the same place, save that on this second charge the evidence seems to have extended to “exagitation” only, and not to “necation.”…”

From: The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Volume XIX, 1881
Extracts from the Records of the Wiltshire Quarter Sessions.
‘Trespass in Pursuit of Game. Licence to Shoot’