parricide

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P0082000 (păr′ĭ-sīd′)n.1. The killing of one's father, mother, or other near relative.2. The killing of the ruler of one's country.3. One who commits parricide.

[Latin parricīdium and parricīda : pāri-, parri-, kin + -cīdium. -cīda, -cide.]

par′ri·cid′al (-sīd′l) adj.par′ri·cid′al·ly adv.

parricide

(ˈpærɪˌsaɪd) n1. (Law) the act of killing either of one's parents2. (Law) a person who kills his or her parent[C16: from Latin parricīdium murder of a parent or relative, and from parricīda one who murders a relative, from parri- (element related to Greek pēos kinsman) + -cīdium, -cīda -cide] ˌparriˈcidal adj

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(ˈpær əˌsaɪd)

n. 1. the killing of one's parent or other close relative. 2. a person who commits such an act. [1545–55; < Latin parricīdum act of kin-murder, parricīda kin-killer =pāri- (akin to Greek pāós, Attic pēós kinsman) + -cīdum, -cida -cide] par`ri•cid′al, adj.

parricide

1. the act of killing one’s parent or other close relative.
2. a person who has killed his parent. — parricidal, adj.See also: Parents

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	parricide - someone who kills his or her parentmatricide - a person who murders their motherliquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)patricide - a person who murders their father
	2.	parricide - the murder of your own father or mothermurder, slaying, execution - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human beingmatricide - the murder of your motherpatricide - the murder of your father

Translations

杀父母杀父母者杀近亲杀近亲者

parricide

(ˈpӕrisaid) noun1. the murder of a parent or near relative. 杀父母，杀近亲 2. a person who does such a murder. 杀父母者，杀近亲者

parricide

1 the act of killing either of one's parents. 2 a person who kills his parent.

PARRICIDE, civil law. One who murders his father; it is applied, by extension, to one who murders his mother, his brother, his sister, or his children. The crime committed by such person is also called parricide. Merl. Rep. mot Parricide; Dig. 48, 9, 1, 1. 3, 1. 4.
2. This offence is defined almost in the same words in the penal code of China. Penal Laws of China, B. 1, s. 2, Sec. 4.
3. The criminal was punished by being scourged, and afterwards sewed in a sort of sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and then thrown into the sea, or into a river; or if there were no water, he was thrown in this manner to wild beasts. Dig. 48, 9, 9; C. 9, 17, 1, 1. 4, 18, 6; Bro. Civ; Law, 423; Wood's Civ. Law, B. 3, c. 10, s. 9.
4. By the laws of France parricide is the crime of him who murders his father or mother, whether they, be the legitimate, natural or adopted parents of the individual, or the murder of any other legitimate ascendant. Code Penal, art. 297. This crime is there punished by the criminal's being taken to the place of execution without any other garment than his shirt, barefooted, and with his head covered with a black veil. He is then exposed on the scaffold while an officer of the court reads his sentence to the spectators; his right hand is then cut off, and he is immediately put to death. Id. art. 13.
5. The common law does not define this crime, and makes no difference between its punishment, and the punishment of murder. 1 Hale's P. C. 380; Prin. Penal Law, c. 18, Sec. 8, p. 243; Dalloz, Dict. mot Homicide.

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