Definition of "parricidal" []

• Related to, inclined to, or guilty of, the murder of one's immediate family. (adjective)

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• "The senate-house in which he was slain, was ordered to be shut up [101], and a decree made that the ides of March should be called parricidal, and the senate should never more assemble on that day."
• "In Cain we perceive the parricidal people of the Jews, who were stained with the blood of their Lord, their Creator…."
• "The revolution's fratricidal — even parricidal — nature was illustrated by the clash between that stalwart of the rebellion Benjamin Franklin and his son William, who was strongly opposed to breaking away from the British and was never reconciled to his father."