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rescue a word: vaticide

September 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

There are so many wonderful words in Dr Johnson’s Dictionary that don’t get the attention they deserve. Let’s dust them off and bring them back
vaticide. n.s. A murderer of poets.
This is a bit of a strange one because the modern meaning of the word is ‘the murder or murderer of a prophet’ so I […]

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