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Definition of Parricide
1. Noun. Someone who kills his or her parent.
2. Noun. The murder of your own father or mother.
Definition of Parricide
1. n. Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.
Definition of Parricide
1. Noun. Someone who kills a relative, especially a parent. ¹
2. Noun. The killing of a relative, especially a parent. ¹
3. Noun. The killing of a ruler, or other authority figure; treason. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parricide
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Parricide
1. 1. The killing of one's parent (patricide or matricide). 2. One who commits such an act. Origin: L. Parricidium, killing of close kin (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parricide
Literary usage of Parricide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church : with Two by Joseph Bingham (1846)
"And this had a noted and peculiar punishment among the old Romans, which was to
tie up the parricide in a sack with a serpent, an ape, a cock, and a dog, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"... Became his people's proudest theme of story ; The fate of Europe seemed with
his allied— He had forgotten quite his parricide ! He died. ..."
3. Views of England, During a Residence of Ten Years; Six of Them as a Prisoner by René Martin Pillet (1818)
"... the habits and morals of that country, see there what I have seen, the cemeteries
transformed into places of prostitution. CHAP. XXV. parricide. ..."
4. Studies in Roman Law, with Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England by Thomas Mackenzie Mackenzie (1865)
"3 parricide. parricide is the murder of parents—a crime against which Solon
refused to make any law, lest he should by forbidding it teach the people it was ..."
5. Scribners MonthlyUnited States (1876)
"A Street Scene in Japan и. .241 Procession of the White Elephant 248 Japanese
Blacksmiths 243 New Year's Festivities 249 A Japanese Stable 246 A parricide ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"THE parricide From ' For the Crown ' The scene represents a rocky plateau in the
Balkans. In the background and centre of the stage, a ruined Roman ..."
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