Definitions for: Parricide


[n] murder of your own parents
[n] someone who kills his or her parent



Webster (1913) Definition: Par"ri*cide, n. [F., fr. L. parricida; pater father
+ caedere to kill. See Father, Homicide, and cf.
Patricide.]
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.

See Also: execution, homicide, liquidator, manslayer, matricide, matricide, murder, murderer, patricide, patricide, slaying

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