parricidal, a.
(pærɪˈsaɪdəl)
[ad. L. parricīdālis: cf. obs. F. parricidal (16th c. in Godef.), f. parricīda parricide1.]
Of, pertaining to, of the nature of a parricide; guilty of parricide.
| 1627 May Lucan vii. N vj, On brothers, and on fathers empty bedds The killers lay their parricidall heads. 1850 Blackie æschylus II. 194 The parricidal Oedipus. 1867 Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. v. 270 Swegen's parricidal war with his father. |
Hence parriˈcidally adv., in a parricidal manner.
| 1856 Miss Mulock J. Halifax xxiv, Dust of the dead ages..never parricidally profaned by us the living age. |