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Webster 1913 Edition

Vaticide

Vat′i-cide

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Noun.

[L.

vates

a prophet +

caedere

to kill.]

The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet.

“The caitiff vaticide.”

Pope.

Webster 1828 Edition

Vaticide

VAT'ICIDE

,

Noun.

[L. vates, a prophet, and caedo, to kill.]

The murderer of a prophet.