filiciden.1
/ˈfɪlɪsʌɪd/ One who kills a son or daughter; a slayer of his own child.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > of relatives > of son or daughter
filicide1823
naticide1855
1823 Douglas III. xx. 267 Fearful of being discovered by the intended filicide.
1848 J. R. Lowell Poems 2nd Ser. (Moxon) 365 I told how it [the aloe]..discharging its pistil..shot The botanical filicide dead on the spot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
filiciden.2
/ˈfɪlɪsʌɪd/ The action of killing a son or daughter.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of relative > of son or daughter
filicide1665
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 217 Homicide, Filicide, Fratricide.
1839 F. Barham tr. H. Grotius Adamus Exul. 47 Let not the race Of mortal men..Utterly perish, thro' our filicide.
1879 A. E. Sproul in Boston Herald 3 May Additional details of the Pocasset filicide are given below.
Derivatives
filiˈcidal adj. concerned with the slaughter of sons and daughters.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [adjective] > of relative > of son or daughter
filicidal1852
1852 J. B. Owen in Visct. Ingestre Meliora 133 His ruin realized the filicidal fable of Saturn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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