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Meaning of Prolicide
The destruction of human offspring either in its fetal form or as an infant .
Prolicide Alternative Definition
(Lat. proles, offspring, cedere, to kill). In medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the subject into “foeticide,” or the destruction of the foetus in utero, and “infanticide,” or the destruction of the new-born infant. Ryan, Med. Jur. 137.
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Prolicide
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killing of one’s child or children, 1824, introduced by Dr. John Gordon Smith in the 2nd edition of his “Principles of Forensic Medicine;” from Latin proles “offspring” (see prolific) + -cide. It is hoped that this word will be considered entitled to reception, on the score of analogy. We have long had parricide, fratricide, and infanticide, all (if I may use the figure of speech,) of the same family; and recently the very appropriate term foeticide has been introduced into Forensic Medicine. In both these last crimes there is a peculiarity arising from the person accused being, in almost every instance, the parent …. In this relation to the beings destroyed, the general term of murderer, or murder of offspring seems to be the fair converse of parricide; and will suit well the purpose of the Medico-legal writer, who considers the two cases as parts of one subject, for the designation of which collectively a proper term was wanting. [Smith]
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- Homicide
Concept of “Prolicide”
Traditional meaning of prolicide in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Killing of human offspring.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Prolicide”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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