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Definition of Patricidal
1. a. Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.
Definition of Patricidal
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to patricide. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Patricidal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patricidal
Literary usage of Patricidal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Studies in Vice and in Insanity by George Robert Wilson (1899)
"A patricidal explosion. Slow progress and ultimate recovery. Stupor, unless
accompanied by marked impulses, is easily missed if the illness does not become ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... and patricidal manner ; they did almost everything that was calculated, to
make the country despise and hate them, and still they remained reasonably ..."
3. Early Civilization: An Introduction to Anthropology by Alexander Goldenweiser (1922)
"Again: the eating of the father by the patricidal brothers is a notion which
doubtless ... Suppose the original tragedy, the patricidal act of the brothers, ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1892)
"The States General indignant at this patricidal conduct applied to France for
aid, according to the stipulations of the treaty concluded with her in 85. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1823)
"... and the emperors who shortly followed ; and forging those patricidal arms that
broke the table of the laws, and murdered •n'tlh which nature and society ..."
6. Putnam's Monthly (1907)
"... whether or not it was the real thing in the way of patricidal fluid, the
remembrance of the harrowing exclamation of his girl friend caused the literary ..."
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