单词 | parricidal |
释义 | parricidaladj. Of, relating to, or of the nature of parricide or a parricide; guilty of parricide; involving parricide. Also figurative. Cf. patricidal adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [adjective] > of relative parricidial1605 parricidec1608 parricidious1609 parricidal1627 parricidous1646 1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) vii. N vj On brothers, and on fathers empty bedds The killers lay their parricidall heads. 1668 P. M. To Author of Ephesian Matron sig. G5, in W. Charleton Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons The Woman suffer'd death for her parricidal wickedness and adultery. 1717 C. Johnson Sultaness iv. ii. 36 Can he pursue His parricidal, cruel, bloody Purpose? 1781 H. Downman Mariamne v. vii. 208 I beheld The parricidal steel uplifted high. 1813 R. Wilson Diary 15 Apr. (1861) I. 336 She has the audacious, parricidal anti-patriotism to boast of Buonaparte's constant career of victory. 1888 Dict. National Biogr. XIV. 336/1 The wicked eldest brother eventually reaped the due reward of his parricidal conduct. 1976 E. Crankshaw Shadow of Winter Palace (1978) iii. 49 If you were to range yourself with the Crescent against me, then I say to you, that would be a parricidal war. 1995 Guardian 12 Oct. i. 15/2 Years of sexual molestation by their father had created a parricidal situation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1627 |
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