If Miss Jewell includes both caprine and hircine, ought we to add, then, masculine and feminine?.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1] Reference

It occurs to me to suggest, as a topic of inquiry in this connexion, whether, on that momentous occasion when the goats and the sheep shall be parted, the Constitution and the Honourable Mr. Bagowind, M.C., will be expected to take their places on the left as our hircine vicars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biglow Papers] Reference

It occurs to me to suggest, as a topic of inquiry in this connection, whether, on that momentous occasion when the goats and the sheep shall be parted, the Constitution and the Honorable Mr. Bagowind, M.C., will be expected to take their places on the left as our hircine vicars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

Herr Urian to give you a hircine metamorphosis, Clarian? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference

One day he is quite beefy and bearable; another, hircine, hippuric, and detestable. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference

Ine adjectives that pertain to, resemble or are characteristic of an animal: accipitrine ` hawklike 'leonine ` lionlike' anguine ` snakelike 'lupine ` wolflike' anserine ` gooselike 'lutrine ` otterlike' aquiline ` eaglelike 'murine ` mouselike' asinine ` asslike 'oscine ` songbirdlike' bovine ` cowlike 'ovine ` sheeplike' canine ` doglike 'passerine ` perching - caprine ` goatlike' songbirdlike 'cervine ` deerlike' pavonine ` peacocklike 'colubrine ` kingsnakelike' piscine ` fishlike 'or ` gartersnakelike' porcine ` piglike or elephantine ` elephantlike '` swinelike' equine ` horselike 'ranine ` froglike' feline ` catlike 'serpentine ` serpentlike' herpestine ` mongooselike 'suilline ` hoglike' hircine ` goatlike, 'especially suine ` swinelike' in strong odor taurine ` bull-like 'or lustfulness ursine ` bearlike' lacertine or lacertilian viperine ` viperlike '.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference

"Premonition," "hircine," "geosynchronous," "ichthyosaur," "tachycardia," "obstreperous" and "ornithophilous" knocked out the first seven of the remaining contestants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gwinnett Daily Post Headlines] Reference

Abecedarian insult: "Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning, zoophyte!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

"ABECEDARIAN INSULT, AN - 'Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facilinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic napform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market Manila] Reference