vaticiden.1
/ˈvatɪsʌɪd/ One who kills a prophet. Also figurative.
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the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > of priest or holy man
vaticide1728
Brahmanicide1806
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 62 Then first (if Poets ought of truth declare) The caitiff Vaticide conceiv'd a prayer.
1746 T. Smollett Reproof 171 I see with joy, the vaticide deplore An hell-denouncing priest and sov'reign whore.
1749 T. Smollett Regicide Pref. sig. A3 My Patience being by this Time quite exhausted, I desired a Gentleman, who interested himself in my Concerns, to go and expostulate with the Vaticide [sc. the Manager of Drury-lane Theatre].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
vaticiden.2
rare.
The killing of a prophet.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of priest or holy man
episcopicide1676
Brahmanicide1834
vaticide1853
1853 W. S. Landor Wks. (1876) V. 119 Vaticide is no crime in the Statute-book.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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