rare. [f. L. taur-us bull: see TAURI- and -CIDE.] a. A bull-slayer; a matador.

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  b.  The slaughter of a bull.

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1845.  E. Warburton, Crescent & Cross, I. ix. 169. Cambyses, the tauricide,… and the desert … have left little trouble to the tourist.

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1852.  Fraser’s Mag., XLV. 536. The great tauricide still hesitated.

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1882.  Pall Mall G., 11 Sept., 2. If you kill him you are guilty of felony or tauricide.

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