Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice of eating fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The practice of eating, or living upon, fish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The practice of eating
fish .
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Examples
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Who can imagine that these poor snakes, the very extracts of ichthyophagy, are not thoroughly enough besmoked and besmeared with misery, distress, and calamity?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Who can imagine that these poor snakes, the very extracts of ichthyophagy, are not thoroughly enough besmoked and besmeared with misery, distress, and calamity?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Jonathan Couch; C.D. Badham, _Prose Halieutics_ (London, 1854), full of curious lore, relating, however, more to ichthyophagy than angling;
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Who can imagine that these poor snakes, the very extracts of ichthyophagy, are not thoroughly enough besmoked and besmeared with misery, distress, and calamity?
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
she commented on the word ichthyophagy
The practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
July 17, 2008
qms commented on the word ichthyophagy
Ecologists warn us that fish
Are not a sustainable dish.
Enlightened philosophy
Eschews ichthyophagy,
Or so would the scientists wish.
June 9, 2017