[f. BIBLIO- + Gr. klasmos breaking.]

Destruction of books, or of the Bible. biblioclast (-klaist, -ĉ-) [Gr. klasths breaker], a destroyer of books, or of the Bible. Also biblioclastic a. (Little more than nonce-words.)

1864 T. GRIFFITH Plea Scripture 8 The Biblioclasm of the ‘higher criticism.’ 1880 BLADES Enemies Bks. 96 Such a wicked old biblioclast as John Bagford. 1884 Athenĉum 7 June 724 Made bonfires of the Maya and Aztec manuscripts..May these bishops expiate their crimes in the purgatory of biblioclasts! 1887 Longman's Mag. Dec. 239 The biblioclastic dead.


(I hope I got the Gr. transletteration closer this time..)