Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The murdering of one's father, mother, or other near relative.
- n. One who commits such a murder.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who murders his father or mother.
- n. One who murders any ancestor or any one to whom he owes reverence; also, in old use, one who kills his child.
- n. The murder of a parent or of one to whom reverence is due.
- n. Figuratively, one who commits treason against his country.
- n. Figuratively, the crime of treason against one's country.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who kills a relative, especially a parent.
- n. The killing of a relative, especially a parent.
- n. The killing of a ruler, or other authority figure; treason.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.
- n. The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who kills his or her parent
- n. the murder of your own father or mother
Etymologies
- From Middle French parricide, from Latin parricida, of uncertain origin. (Wiktionary)
- Latin parricīda and parricīdium : pāri-, parri-, kin + -cīda, -cīdium, -cide. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This recovery of filiation in parricide has its parallel in the more general return of history and ethics that de Man recognizes in these essays (and claims is their "most interesting occurrence of all") (498).”
“The word parricide is contrary to its original import, applied to the murderer of any near relative.”
“About 49 children each year kill their parents, but few are so young, said Kathleen Heide, a criminology professor at the University of South Florida who has studied the crime, called parricide, for more than 30 years.”
“The violence hidden and demonstrated by elegance is what de Man calls a parricide, and this death (a broken leg, broken legacy) seems de Man's own.”
“You know, Bethany, the reality is that parricide, which is slang for parenticide, is very rare, much less when a girl, a girl, a teenager commits parricide.”
“University of South Florida who has studied the crime, called parricide, for more than 30”
“Must I be called a parricide, a traitor, a villain, lose the esteem of all those whom I love, to preserve my own; be shunned like a rattlesnake, or be pointed at like a bear?”
“The contemplating a father's death and profiting by the contemplation, -- it seems a kind of parricide -- it is not natural, Randal.”
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
“Christ is the forgiveness of real sins, such as parricide and the like.”
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
“For "parricide", i.e., killing within near degrees, the criminal is hung up, apparently by the heels, with a live wolf (he having acted as a wolf which will slay its fellows).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘parricide’.
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Mobying Along
looks like there's not an open Moby Dick list. So now there is.
hypos, Manhattoes, circumambulate, mole, grapnels, bowsprit, asphaltic, mazy, tranced, cataract, ungraspable, judgmatically and 227 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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EN - eloquence in public speaking
Key words from "The Training of a Public Speaker" by Grenville Kleiser (New York and London, 1920)
beget, imago, Vespasian, languid, studied, judgment, dwindle, artifice, contribute, observe, sonorous, gladiator and 264 more...
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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Precise words to describe murder
Suicide, infanticide, fraticide, you name it.
homocide, filicide, infanticide, parricide, matricide, patricide, suicide, spermicide, fratricide, regicide, uxoricide, vatricide and 10 more...
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-cide
patricide, suicide, matricide, fratricide, regicide, insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, barbicide, ethnocide, foeticide, genocide and 4 more...
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Vargas Llosa - Aunt Julia
appetency, chrematistics, parricide, rending, arnica, hieratic, heterae, epithalamicide, lubricous, lubricious, foundling, acrostic and 4 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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-cide words
aborticide to weedicide
algaecide, acaricide, aborticide, algicide, antipesticide, antisuicide, aphicide, bacillicide, bactericide, biocide, biopesticide, bullycide and 62 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Words gathered while reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
refectory, soutane, ha-ha, jewelly, girt, centenary, collywobbles, coadjutor, catafalque, beeftea, pierhead, bedad and 235 more...
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traipsin' 'long through dis 'ear book...
Words which are either entirely new to me or;
Words which I comprehend generally but would prefer a more precise definition.
venality, seigneurial, mendicant, perforce, manse, glebe, trenchant, saw, obstreperous, profligate, dissipation, galliard and 176 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for parricide.
bilby "The sale of absolutions was the source of large fortunes to the priests ... God's pardon for crimes already committed, or about to be committed, was advertised according to a graduated tariff. Thus, poisoning, for example, was absolved for eleven ducats, six livres tournois. Absolution for incest was afforded at thirty-six livres, three ducats. Perjury came to seven livres and three carlines. Pardon for murder, if not by poison, was cheaper. Even a parricide could buy forgiveness at God's tribunal at one ducat, four livres, eight carlines."
- 'The Rise of the Dutch Republic', John Lothrop Motley, 1855. Feb 19, 2008