† episcopiciden.
Obsolete. rare.
The crime of murdering a bishop.
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episcopicide1676
Brahmanicide1834
vaticide1853
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Episcopicide, the killing of a Bishop.
1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. ii. vii. 66 The Law of England..made the offences of Parricide & Episcopacide equal.
1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) Episcopacide, the crime of murdering a bishop by one of his own clergy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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