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▪ I. matricide1|ˈmeɪtrɪsaɪd, ˈmætrɪ-|
[ad. L. mātricīda, f. mātr(i)-, māter mother: see -cide 1.]
One who kills his or her mother.
1632Sherwood, A Matricide (or mother-killing), Matricide. 1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 242 Amphilocus, the son of a wicked Matricide. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 232 A matricide, because he had attempted to kill his stepmother. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 740 The now unchecked tyranny of the incestuous matricide.
▪ II. matricide2|ˈmeɪtrɪsaɪd, ˈmætrɪ-|
[ad. L. mātricīd-ium: see prec. and -cide 2. Cf. F. matricide (mod. rare).]
The action of killing one's mother. Also Comb.
1594O. B. Quest. Profit. Concern. 13 b, Now from viperous matricide sellers, good Lord deliuer vs. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xvi. 145 Nature..compensates the death of the father by the matricide or murder of the mother. 1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 183 A Generation, Bald⁓pate Time ne're Ey'd: That durst concurre, in voting Matricide. 1846Grote Greece i. xiv. I. 381 note, The matricide of Orestês. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 64 Hers was the jealousy which had goaded Nero to matricide. |