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Definition of Patricides
1. patricide [n] - See also: patricide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patricides
Literary usage of Patricides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mahometanism Unveiled: An Inquiry, in which that Arch-heresy, Its Diffusion by Charles Forster (1829)
"patricides has preserved frightful traits of Jewish bigotry, ... patricides, ap.
Hott. Hist. Or. pp. 129, 130. No words can heighten this awful picture of ..."
2. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1886)
"... and patricides, the fancies and frivolities of fashion, and the increasing
disposition to shrink from the cares and responsibilities of this life, ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... who, from base and lucrative motives, were the great support of the American
rebellion; traitors to their King, and patricides to their country. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The professions of love and peace held out by the Swiss, he curses to the pit of
hell, for they are patricides and matricides. "Furious the reply can no ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"He denounced Zwingli and his followers at this time as " fanatics," " patricides," "
matricides," " fratricides," " devils," " knaves," " heretics," ..."
6. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1885)
"Wilks, Townsend, Oliver, &c., who had presumed to discharge the impressed men
who had been brought before them, calling them patricides, enemies to their ..."
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