About The Word Parricide
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Parricide
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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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