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▪ I. parricide1|ˈpærɪsaɪd|
Also 6–8 pari-, (6 para-, 7 parra-).
[a. F. parricide (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. parricīda, pāricīda, of doubtful derivation; by Quintilian thought to be for *patricīda, f. patr-em father: see -cide 1. See also patricide.]
One who murders his father or either parent, or other near relative; also, the murderer of any one whose person is considered specially sacred as being the ruler of the country or in some position of trust; one guilty of the crime of parricide: see next; transf. one who commits the crime of treason against his country.
1554W. Prat Africa v. G iv, They haue a sharpe punishement for the paradices [sic] and mansleers. 1555Eden Decades 270 The Romans were accustomed to sowe paricides in sackes. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 64 b, Luther..exhorteth all men that they would come to destroye these wycked theves and paracides. 1563Foxe A. & M. (1583) 755/2 Thus was Solyman murderer & parricide of hys owne sonnes. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 812 Parricides, which slew their Parents, or which slew their wives or children. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 5 If a woman murder her husband, she is judged by the civil law a parricide. 1638R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. III) 170 They lend the Spaniard their blood, and their hearts, to make a slave of their country, and are parricides of their Mother. 1644–58Cleaveland Gen. Poems (1677) 171 My Compassion to my Country must not make me a Parricide to my Prince. c1696Prior Cupid Mistaken 11 Parricide! Like Nero, thou hast slain thy mother. 1703Rowe Fair Penit. v. i. 1810 This Paricide..Shortens her Father's Age, and cuts him off. 1853Merivale Rom. Rep. i. (1867) 5 Should a victorious general dare to turn his arms against his own country, where was the nation which should rise and overwhelm the parricide?
b. attrib. or as adj. = parricidal.
1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 58 Persons that had..dipp'd their Parricide Hands in his Blood. 1796A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 295 To exalt the French character, and, with parricide impulse, to depreciate that of England?
▪ II. ˈparricide2
Also 7–8 pari-.
[a. F. parricide (15th c. in Littré), ad. L. parricīdium: see prec. and -cide 2.]
The murder of a father, parent, near relative, ruler, etc.; the crime of a parricide: see prec.; transf. the crime of treason against one's country.
Parricīda and parricidium had already in Latin a very wide application, including all uses found in English. In Codes in which distinctions are or were made between different kinds of murder, parricide, besides meaning the murder of parents and near relatives, has been variously extended; English Common Law distinguishes ‘in no respect between the crime of parricide or that of killing a husband, wife, or master, and the crime of simple murder’ (Wharton Law Lex. 1848).
1570T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. (1853) 132 If it be for every private man..parricide to kill his private parents. 1654R. Codrington tr. Iustine xxxii. 405 The Father being compelled to parricide, did make sad all the Court with the execution of his Son. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xi. §244 This unparalleled murder and parricide was committed upon the 30th of January. 1782Cowper Let. to J. Newton Wks. 1837 XV. 126 The Americans..seem to me to have incurred the guilt of parricide, by renouncing their parent, by making her ruin their favourite object. 1866R. Lowe Sp. Reform. 31 May (1867) 212 To precipitate a decision..is parricide in the case of the Constitution, which is the life and soul of this great nation. 1879Froude Cæsar viii. 87 They denied that they had themselves killed Sextus Roscius. They said the son had done it, and they charged him with parricide.
b. attrib. or as adj. = parricidal.
1806Jefferson Writ. (ed. Ford) VIII. 473 Persons who may reject..parricide propositions.
Hence ˈparricided ppl. a., killed by parricide.
1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ii. ix. (1872) I. 106 The parricided Albert's son. |