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Webster 1913 Edition

Parricide

Par′ri-cide

,

Noun.

[F., fr. L.

parricida

;

pater

father +

caedere

to kill. See

,

, and cf.

.]

1.

Properly, one who murders one’s own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

2.

[L.

parricidium

.]

The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.