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Parricide

Parricide Meaning & Definition
Parricide Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Parricide?

[n] murder of your own parents
[n] someone who kills his or her parent

Synonyms | Synonyms for Parricide:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Parricide: aborticide | fratricide | fungicide | genocide | germicide | herbicide | homicide | infanticide | insecticide | matricide | microbicide | patricide | pesticide | regicide | rodenticide | sororicide | suicide | uxoricide | vermicide

See Also | execution | homicide | liquidator | manslayer | matricide | matricide | murder | murderer | patricide | patricide | slaying

Parricide In Webster's Dictionary

\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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