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Prolicide

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The killing of one’s offspring. See Foeticide; Infanticide.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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 fœtus in utero, and infanticide or the destruction of the new-born infant. Ry. Med. Jur. 280.