temporicide
temporicide noun: the act of killing time.
Noun
temporicide (countable and uncountable, plural temporicides)
- The act of killing time.
- Fancy Isaac Newton, with the confused elements of a 'Principia' circulating in his brain, constrained to write installation odes or opera criticisms for the 'Morning Post;' or fancy, if you will, some impetuous rhinoceros set to draw water from the well at Carisbrook Castle, in the place of the...1851, Chambers W. and R., ltd, Chambers's papers for the people, page 9
- In the "Illustrated London News" for February, 1855, and again in the "Art Journal" for March, 1857, there are drawings by Mr. Glaisher, of the Greenwich Observatory, of no less than thirty-two varieties discovered in his own neighborhood, and doubtless many more may be found, and in any part of...1866, Leo Hartley Grindon, Life: Its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena, page 435
temporicide meaning in Bengali
temporicide in Bengali
- সময়কে ধ্বংস করার কাজ, কাজকর্ম
Examples of temporicide in a sentence
- D., who would catch the tide, G., with his notions wide, Each is temporicide — Time's reckless murderer:1880, Edward James Mortimer Collins, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Thoughts in my garden:
- To become truly sovereign, Macbeth recognizes from the very beginning that it is not enough to merely commit regicide, he must also perform a kind of temporicide: an act of time killing.2019, Arthur Bradley, Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure:
Forms of temporicide
| plural | temporicides |
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Origin of temporicide
From Latin temporis (“time”) + -icide.
Questions about temporicide
- What does temporicide mean?
- Temporicide means the act of killing time.
- What is temporicide in Bengali?
- Temporicide in Bengali is সময়কে ধ্বংস করার কাজ, কাজকর্ম. See Temporicide meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use temporicide in a sentence?
- D., who would catch the tide, G., with his notions wide, Each is temporicide — Time's reckless murderer:
- What part of speech is temporicide?
- Temporicide is a noun.
- What is the plural of temporicide?
- The plural of temporicide is temporicides.
Words near temporicide in the dictionary
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