In-făn’ti-cīde, n.
n. [Lat. infanticidium, child-murder, and infanticida, a child-murderer, from infans, child, and cædere, to kill, murder; Fr. infanticide, It. & Sp. infanticidio and infanticida.]
- (Law.) The murder of an infant born alive; murder of a newly-born child.
- Specifically, the slaughter of infants by Herod.
- A slayer of infants.