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Definition of Deicide
1. n. The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.
Definition of Deicide
1. Noun. The killing of a god or goddess. ¹
2. Noun. The killer of a god or goddess. ¹
3. Noun. (Christianity) (theology) The crucifixion of Jesus viewed as a crime. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deicide
1. the killing of a god [n -S] : DEICIDAL [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deicide
Literary usage of Deicide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Deicides: Analysis of the Life of Jesus, and of the Several Phases of by Joseph Cohen (1873)
"Events subsequent to the death of Jesus—Tenacity of the incredulity of the
Jews—Moral deicide—Double objections. SUCH were the life, the death, ..."
2. An Universal History: From the Beginning of the World, to the Empire of by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1821)
"It was the most heinous of all crimes, a crime till then unheard of, namely,
deicide, which therefore gave occasion to a vengeance, whereof the world had ..."
3. Colloquia Peripatetica: Deep-sea Soundings : Being Notes of Conversations by William Angus Knight (1879)
"[But if the wrongdoer is not conscious that his sin designs deicide, he cannot
be responsible for its being so, even if it is so.] A man is not conscious of ..."
4. Vicars of Christ: Popes, Power, and Politics in the Modern World by Michael P. Riccards (1998)
"Now patiently and rationally he tried to counter the attempts to amend the text
even further by not including the deicide exclaimer, and also by emphasizing ..."
5. Lives of Northern Worthies by Hartley Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852)
"Yet it is certain that the orthodox clergy did consider Milton as an exceeding
wicked man, worse than a parricide, yea, a deicide ; inasmuch as he justified ..."
6. Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns by Hartley Coleridge (1833)
"... yea, a deicide; inasmuch as he justified regicide, and he who justifies an
act, to all intents and purposes makes it his own, and regicide was, ..."
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