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Definition of Matricide
1. Noun. A person who murders their mother.
2. Noun. The murder of your mother.
Definition of Matricide
1. n. The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
Definition of Matricide
1. Noun. The killing of one's mother. ¹
2. Noun. A person who kills his or her mother. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Matricide
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Matricide
1. 1. The killing of one's mother. Compare: patricide. 2. One who commits such an act. Origin: L. Mater, mother, + caedo, to kill (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matricide
Literary usage of Matricide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... Forests—Cape Horn—Wigwam Cove—Miserable Condition of the
Savages—Famines—Cannibals—matricide—Religious Feelings — Great Gale—Beagle
Channel — Ponsonby ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... board—Interview with the Savages—Scenery of the Forests—Cape Horn—Wigwam
Cove—Miserable Condition of the Savages—Famines—Cannibals—matricide—Religious ..."
3. Later Leaves: Being the Further Reminiscences of Montagu Williams by Montagu Stephen Williams (1891)
"I defend Thomas Ferryman, charged with matricide—Finding the body—The movements
... I THINK I only once defended a matricide. In this case, which was tried ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"THE matricide From < Electra > Strike, ye gods! 11-powerful, summoned by my fury;
gods! if there be such, then strike! I live. My crime, my hideous crime, ..."
5. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1874)
"Э i— 28 s 12 « Schwake, Alfred James, for Libel, -4 > 126 Seaton, Henry, for
Burglary, 26 * 11_/ Seddon, John, for matricide, ..."
6. Journal of Researches Into the Geology & Natural History of the Various by Charles Darwin (1908)
"... —matricide—Religious feelings—Great Gale—Beagle Channel—Ponsonby Sound—Build
Wigwams and settle the Fuegians—Bifurcation of the Beagle ..."
7. Ten Months Among the Tents of the Tuski: With Incidents of an Arctic Boat by William Hulme Hooper (1853)
"matricide, a deed of horror.—The Bride's departure.—A novel punishment.
— Snow-Blindness. — Companionship. — Refraction. — Games. — The Cripple. ..."
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