"menticide" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "menticidal"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "menticidally"
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      "name": "der"
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        "2": "",
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      "expansion": "+ -cide (“killing”)",
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "-cīdium"
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      "expansion": "Latin -cīdium",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "homicide"
      },
      "expansion": "homicide",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "genocide"
      },
      "expansion": "genocide",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin mēns (“mind”) or mentālis (“mental”) + -cide (“killing”), from Latin -cīdium, by analogy to homicide, genocide, etc. Coined during the 1950s.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "menticides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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          "name": "English terms suffixed with -cide (killing)",
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1957, Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo, Mental Seduction and Menticide: The Psychology of Thought Control and Brainwashing, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC, page 87",
          "text": "In the last phases of brainwashing and menticide, the self-humiliating submission of the victims serves as an inner defensive device annihilating the prosecuting inquisitor in a magic way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs."
      ],
      "id": "en-menticide-en-noun-E6AJXTQU",
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        [
          "Brain-washing",
          "brain-washing"
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          "conditioning",
          "conditioning"
        ],
        [
          "belief",
          "belief"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "brain-washing",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "menticide"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "brain-washing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Mentizid"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1974, Herbert Foster, Ribbin', Jivin', and Playin' the Dozens: The Unrecognized Dilemma of Inner-city Schools, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, page 6",
          "text": "In response, black groups accuse school personnel of practicing genocide and \"menticide\" (miseducation) for allowing black children to get away with conduct they would not condone in white children.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Fielding McGehee, Rebecca Moore, The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown: Remembering its People, Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, page 151",
          "text": "I wanted then — and I want today — no laws against \"mental kidnapping\" or \"mentacide\" or any other socially unacceptable state of mind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people."
      ],
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          "will"
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      ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mentacide"
    }
  ],
  "word": "menticide"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms suffixed with -cide (killing)",
    "English uncountable nouns"
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    },
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    }
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    },
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  "forms": [
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1957, Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo, Mental Seduction and Menticide: The Psychology of Thought Control and Brainwashing, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC, page 87",
          "text": "In the last phases of brainwashing and menticide, the self-humiliating submission of the victims serves as an inner defensive device annihilating the prosecuting inquisitor in a magic way.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs."
      ],
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          "conditioning",
          "conditioning"
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          "belief",
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          "ref": "1974, Herbert Foster, Ribbin', Jivin', and Playin' the Dozens: The Unrecognized Dilemma of Inner-city Schools, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, page 6",
          "text": "In response, black groups accuse school personnel of practicing genocide and \"menticide\" (miseducation) for allowing black children to get away with conduct they would not condone in white children.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Fielding McGehee, Rebecca Moore, The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown: Remembering its People, Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, page 151",
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        "Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people."
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          "will",
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    {
      "word": "mentacide"
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  ],
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "brain-washing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "menticide"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "brain-washing",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Mentizid"
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}