Meaning of PARRICIDE
| Pronunciation: | | 'pari`sId
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- [n] murder of your own parents
- [n] someone who kills his or her parent
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| | See Also: | | execution, homicide, liquidator, manslayer, matricide, matricide, murder, murderer, patricide, patricide, slaying | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Par"ri*cide\, n. [F., fr. L. parricida; pater father
+ caedere to kill. See {Father}, {Homicide}, and cf.
{Patricide}.]
1. Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider
sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any
ancestor.
2. [L. parricidium.] The act or crime of murdering one's own
father or any ancestor.
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| | Related Terms: | | aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide, patricide, pesticide, regicide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide, uxoricide, vermicide |
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