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▪ I. patricide1 rare.|ˈpætrɪsaɪd|
[f. L. type *patricīda, f. L. patr-em father + -cīda killer, in most cases a later alteration or MS. variant of pāri-, parricīda parricide, associating the word more explicitly with pater, patrem father (or, sometimes, with patria).
In one place, Cicero De Domo 10 §28, where the word is conjoined with frātricīda, sorōricīda, Müller's text keeps patricīda, which occurs in 1 MS., while 3 have parricīda.]
A murderer of a father (or of some one so regarded); = parricide1.
1593R. Harvey Philad. 2 We cannot thinke that Brute was a patricide. 1624Heywood Gunaik. ix. 436 Touching Patricides, Solon..made no law to punish such, as thinking it not to be possible in nature to produce such a monster. 1649Ormond Let. to Col. Jones in Milton's Wks. (1851) II. 543 They have..murthered Gods Anointed, and our King, not as heretofore some Patricides have done, to make room for some Usurper. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. liii. (1737) 219 Worse than Patricides.
▪ II. ˈpatricide2 rare.
[ad. L. type *patricīdium, after prec.: see -cide 2.]
The action of killing one's father; = parricide2.
1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis iii. iii. 156 My Father..should die by my patricide. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 217 Patricide, Matricide and Regicide. 1707Ld. Belhaven Sp. Union w. Engl., Patricide is worse than parricide. 1902B. Kidd West. Civiliz. vii. 236 Their patricides, fratricides, and murders.
b. attrib. (In quot. associated with patria fatherland: cf. patricidal.)
1901N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 212 That..they should have..covered their country with insults, while her sons were exposed to the enemy's bullets. This patricide policy will appear unpardonable in the eyes of future generations. |
