† parriˈcidial, a. Obs.
[ad. L. parricīdiāl-is, f. parricīdium parricide2: see -al1. Cf. obs. F. parricidial (c 1600 in Godef.).]
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of parricide; parricidal.
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iii. Furies 797 Who..in all humane lives In cold bloud bath their parricidiall knives. a 1656 Ussher Ann. (1658) 337 Partly by parricidial acts committed in his own family. 1692 Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. (1851) Pref. 9 The news of Salmasius Parricidial Barbarisms. |