Parricide is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARRICIDE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the killing of a parent or close relative, also PATRICIDE
• the killing of a parent or other near relative.
• a person who commits parricide.
• Properly, one who murders one\'s own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one\'s father or mother or any ancestor.
• The act or crime of murdering one\'s own father or any ancestor.
• someone who kills his or her parent
• the murder of your own father or mother
• crime of killing either of one's parents
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• ; one that murders his or her father, mother, or a close relative
• crime of killing either of one\'s parents

Words related to PARRICIDE

akin8 by7 cide7 close7 from9 greek10 killer10 kinsman13 marriage11 of5 parricides15 perhaps14 pos5 relative11 to2

Words that contain PARRICIDE

parricides15

How to use PARRICIDE in a sentence

• Such were the unaccountable caprices of fortune, which led to the completion of the prophecy, that had destined him to become one day a parricide.
• Sotion had embraced the views of Pythagoras respecting the transmigration of souls, a doctrine which made the eating of animal food little better than cannibalism or parricide.
• Wilful murder, poisoning, and parricide were capitally punished.
• That is the road formerly, taken to the making of barricades, and to proceeding by degrees to the parricide of the late king.
• Safi Mirza, indignant at a project which tended to turn him into a parricide, declared all to the Sebah, and placed himself entirely at his disposal.
• Innocence! Alas, poor parricide! In the morning the sun streamed into the coach, of which we were the only inside passengers.
• Heliocles, who was allowed by his father a quasi-royal position, obtained the full possession of the Bactrian throne by the crime of parricide.
• Nothing is known regarding the reign of the parricide Ashur-natsir-pal I of Assyria.
• After that parricide the new reduction rose in rebellion.
• There were days during them when he stood in the shadow of death, with almost the horror of a parricide in his heart.
• They claimed power to expiate all sins, even parricide.
• They certainly breathe the purest effusions of an exalted patriot, while the parricide Caesar is lost in odious contrast.
• The indignity with which he is said to have scouted this parricide proposition, was equally worthy of his virtue and wisdom.
• Roscius of Ameria, who was charged with parricide by Chrysogonus, a freedman of Sulla, supported, as it was understood, by the influence of his patron.
• There they agreed, that after the perpetration of the parricide, they should ride in a body as far as Hammersmith, and then dispersing, enter London by different avenues.
• He never would needlessly subject himself to the infamy and danger of being esteemed a parricide, without acquiring the security attending that crime.
• Now we are asked to allow a tomb-haunter to call a parricide to disclose that which he himself is ignorant of.
• Thus one year after he had committed this parricide, he was strangled, together with Vitellozzo, whom he had made his leader in valour and wickedness.
• In many countries parricide is considered the worse type of murder.
• Parricide and infanticide were apparently unknown among them.
• They are addicted equally with men to the perpetration of parricide, and are more frequently convicted than men for the ill-treatment of children.

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