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▪ I. fratricide1|ˈfreɪtrɪsaɪd, ˈfrætrɪ-|
[a. F. fratricide, ad. L. frātricīda, f. frāter brother + -cīdĕre: see -cide 1.]
One who kills his (or her) brother.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3955 Absolon his awen brothere sleere..ffor he a ffratricide is calde. a1685Bp. Womock in Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. ii. (1849) 193 For his [Calvin's] bitter speeches Bucer gave him the title of a fratricide. 1779Franklin Wks. (1889) VI. 289 If you will enable the king to reward those fratricides, you will establish a precedent. 1821Byron Cain iii. i, Hence, fratricide! hence⁓forth that word is Cain.
▪ II. fratricide2|ˈfreɪtrɪsaɪd, ˈfrætrɪ-|
[a. F. fratricide, ad. L. frātricīd-ium, f. frāter brother + -cīdĕre: see -cide 2.]
The action of killing one's brother. (In Law also the killing of one's sister.)
1568Grafton Chron. 3 For the which fratricide or brother murthering, he [Cain] was by the sentence of Almighty God publyshed for a vagabond. 1687Boyle Martyrd. Theodora ii. (1703) 25 Fratricide be justly listed among the blackest crimes. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 134 The Fratricide..is said to have been committed in this place. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) II. xxi. 425 The stain of fratricide could never be entirely wiped away.
▸ Mil. a. Premature detonation of a nuclear warhead or interference with its guidance system during flight, caused by the blast of a missile that has been previously launched at the same or a nearby target.
1972Bull. Operations Res. Soc. Amer. 20 Suppl. 1 b183 The reentry vehicles are intercepted according to various intercept point selection (IPS) tactics and in observance of blackout, fratricide, and radar tracking constraints. 1985National Rev. (U.S.) 28 June 53/2 [Any] effort to slip through to the targets before pressure waves had time to form would be frustrated both by the intricacies of timing such an attack and by the multiplied probability of missile fratricide. 2000R. E. Powaski Return to Armageddon i. 36 They asserted that the detonation of the first Soviet warheads would commit ‘fratricide’.
b. Accidental casualties or damage caused by an army's own force or that of its allies; friendly fire.
1986Washington Post (Nexis) 7 June a1 In official Air Force jargon, such friendly fire is known as fratricide. In pilots' slang, the victims ‘mort themselves out’. 1992H. N. Schwarzkopf It doesn't take Hero 500, I detest the term ‘friendly fire’. Once a bullet leaves a muzzle or a rocket leaves an airplane, it is not friendly to anyone. Unfortunately, fratricide has been around since the beginning of war. 2001Financial Times (Nexis) 27 June 13 The report also addresses one of the most serious problems in combat—the potential for what the military calls ‘unintentional fratricide’, also known as friendly-fire casualties—when troops accidently [sic] fire on their comrades. |