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▪ I. filicide1|ˈfɪlɪsaɪd|
[f. L. fīli-us, fīlia son, daughter + -cide: see -cide 1.]
One who kills a son or daughter; a slayer of his own child.
1823Douglas III. xx. 267 Fearful of being discovered by the intended filicide. 1848Lowell Fable for Critics Poet. Wks. (Moxon) 365, I told how it [the aloe]..discharging its pistil..shot The botanical filicide dead on the spot.
▪ II. filicide2|ˈfɪlɪsaɪd|
[f. as prec.: see -cide 2.]
The action of killing a son or daughter.
1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 217 Homicide, Filicide, Fratricide. 1839F. Barham Adamus Exul. 47 Let not the race Of mortal men..Utterly perish, thro' our filicide. 1879A. E. Sproul in Boston Herald 3 May, Additional details of the Pocasset filicide are given below.
Hence filiˈcidal a. concerned with the slaughter of sons and daughters.
1852J. B. Owen in Ld. Ingestre's Meliora I. 133 His ruin realized the filicidal fable of Saturn. |