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单词 matricide
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matriciden.1

Brit. /ˈmatrᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈmætrəˌsaɪd/, /ˈmeɪtrəˌsaɪd/
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French matricide; Latin mātricīda.
Etymology: < Middle French matricide (1565, rare; c1268 in Old French as matrecide , rare; also as adjective, from 1580) or its etymon classical Latin mātricīda < mātri- , māter mother (see matri- comb. form) + -cīda -cide comb. form1. Compare Italian matricida (14th cent.), Spanish matricida (1706), Portuguese matricida (1813). Compare slightly earlier patricide n.2
A person who kills his or her mother.The meaning of quot. 1594 is obscure.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of relative > of parent > of mother
matricide1594
1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 13 b Now from viperous matricide sellers, good Lord deliuer vs.
1621 R. Brathwait Natures Embassie 120 Thou foule Matricide doest infants vex, Without respect of person, state, or sex.
1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. Ii1v Amphilocus, the son of a wicked Matricide.
1689 C. Goodall Poems & Transl. 45 Hadst thou died Instead of him, thou hadst been stil'd the Matricide.
1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis 232 A matricide, because he had attempted to kill his stepmother.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. x. xlv. 409 The now unchecked tyranny of the incestuous matricide.
1990 L. Barber in Independent on Sunday 28 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 17/4 I've known people who are matricides and uxoricides.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

matriciden.2

Brit. /ˈmatrᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈmætrəˌsaɪd/, /ˈmeɪtrəˌsaɪd/
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French matricide; Latin mātricīdium.
Etymology: < French matricide (1521 in Middle French) or its etymon classical Latin mātricīdium < mātri- , māter mother (see matri- comb. form) + -cīdium -cide comb. form2. Compare Italian matricidio (a1294), Spanish matricidio (1706), Portuguese matricidio (1813). Compare earlier patricide n.1
The action of killing one's mother; an instance of this.
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the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > of relatives > of parent > of mother
mother queller1440
mother-slayer?c1475
matricide1632
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A Matricide (or mother-killing), Matricide.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvi. 145 Nature..compensates the death of the father by the matricide or murder of the mother. View more context for this quotation
1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 183 A Generation, Bald-pate Time ne're Ey'd: That durst concurre, in voting Matricide.
1710 M. Chudleigh Ess. Several Subj. 128 I am..amaz'd to see so strict a Pretender to Virtue, suspected to be a Consenter to Nero's Matricide.
1765 W. Shirley Electra iv. ii. 62 Arrest my arm if phrenzy should provoke, And save me from the guilt of matricide.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xiv. 381 (note) The matricide of Orestês.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 64 Hers was the jealousy which had goaded Nero to matricide.
1927 E. Lewis Trader Horn (1930) i. iv. 61 It takes a pretty strong prayer to shut out matricide.
1985 J. Berman Talking Cure iii. 80 Fitzgerald had originally intended the story to deal with the subject of matricide.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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