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Definition of Matricides
1. matricide [n] - See also: matricide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matricides
Literary usage of Matricides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sibylline Oracles by Milton Spenser Terry, Aloisius Rzach (1899)
"Ye matricides, leave off your impudence And evil-working boldness, ... matricides.—The
Romans are thus addressed, as if they were conceived in the Sibyl's ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"The same punishment will be meted out to those who ridicule i heir parents.
Parricides and matricides will be sent to a hell where the pavement is always ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Most widely dispersed throughout the Frankish Empire were the small
poorhouses (matricides) in the different churches. In the course of time these ..."
4. Euripides by Euripides (1912)
"THOAS Yea, if the matricides have tainted it. 120U IPHIGENEIA Else from its
pedestal had I moved it not. THOAS Righteous thy piety and forethought are. ..."
5. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson (1918)
"... upon of Ferrara. returning home, were hailed with indignation and branded as
robbers and matricides for the concessions which they had made. ..."
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