Parricide

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parricide \Par"ri*cide\, n. [F., fr. L. parricida; pater father
     + caedere to kill. See {Father}, {Homicide}, and cf.
     {Patricide}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider
        sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any


        ancestor.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. [L. parricidium.] The act or crime of murdering one's own
        father or any ancestor.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  parricide
       n 1: someone who kills his or her parent
       2: murder of your own parents

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "parricide":
     aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide,
     homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide,
     patricide, pesticide, regicide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide,
     uxoricide, vermicide
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.