temporicide

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of killing time. countable,uncountable
    — Fancy Isaac Newton, with the confused elements of a 'Principia' circulating in his brain, constrained to write installation odes or opera criticisms for the 'Morning Post;' or fancy, if you will, some impetuous rhinoceros set to draw water from the well at Carisbrook Castle, in the place of the celebrated donkey so long accustomed to it; and you will have some notion of Fichte's tragical labour of writing tragedies and short romantic stories, adaptable for purposes of temporicide.

词形变化

temporicides plural

词源

From Latin temporis (“time”) + -icide.
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