3. Get rid of the rats. Place unset, baited traps in a trap box on the rat path. Add new bait each day, and on the third day after the rats have started eating the bait, set the baited traps.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. The word filicide derives from the Latin words filius meaning son or filia meaning daughter and the suffix -cide meaning to kill, murder, or cause death.
Felicific calculus. The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748â1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to cause. Bentham, an ethical hedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain that it produced.