mundicidious

mundicidious adjective: mundicidal, world-killing; capable of or likely to be destroying the world.

Adjective

mundicidious

(rare) Mundicidal, world-killing; capable of or likely to be destroying the world.
- […] of the Biography differs from all the other volumes in that the concerns of this particular stage in the journeying of Manuel's life from one generation to another are wholly mundicidious. […]1928, J. B. Cabell, Gallantry
- […] as when Nathaniel Ward in The simple cobler of Aggawam (1647) roundly declared : A vacuum and an ex-orbitancy are mundicidious evils. Ward had not heard of the H bomb.1955 January 15, Joseph T. Shipley, Dictionary of Early English, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 444

[…] "mundicidious" -- not precisely in the sense that Gallantry is so, but "mundicidious" in that they are bound […]1959, Arvin R. Wells, Jesting Moses: A study in Cabellian Comedy:
... which are behind what we, just as loosely, call “ordinary experience.” It was only then, in fine, that I turned definitely away from the merely mundicidious.2021 September 1 [????], James Branch Cabell, Delphi Complete Works of James Branch Cabell (Illustrated), Delphi Classics, →ISBN:

From mundicide + -ious.

What does mundicidious mean?: Mundicidious means mundicidal, world-killing; capable of or likely to be destroying the world.
How do you use mundicidious in a sentence?: […] "mundicidious" -- not precisely in the sense that Gallantry is so, but "mundicidious" in that they are bound […]
What part of speech is mundicidious?: Mundicidious is an adjective.

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