Crossword-Solution: PATRICIDE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Patricide | n. | The murderer of his father. |
| Patricide | n. | The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PATRICIDE | anagram | PEDIATRIC |
We have 7 clues for the answer “PATRICIDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Case of murder. | 1 answer |
| Oedipus' crime. | 1 answer |
| Oedipus's crime | 1 answer |
| crime of killing one's father | 1 answer |
| KILLING of father | 2 answers |
| Parricide | 3 answers |
| homicide | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PATRICIDE (5)
And a cousin to boot!" "What! has Clara been communicative?" "The itinerary of a voyage Miss Middleton is going to make." "Do you join them?" "Why, it would be delightful, Willoughby, but it happens I've got a lot of powder I want to let off, and so I've an idea of shouldering my gun along the sea-coast and shooting gulls: which'll be a harmless form of committing patricide and matricide and fratricide--for there's my family, and I come of it!--the gull! And I've to talk lively to Mrs.
Then came the patricide of Clarence, the accession and cruelties of Richard III., the battle of Bosworth, and, at length, the union of the two houses in the persons of Henry VII.
The judge and Mabel had at last left us alone, probably because they hesitated to have Peter commit patricide and fratricide, if those are the right terms for sister and father murder.
She did not think of him as a patricide, nor did her own loss entirely inspire the emotion; she never associated him with that, but kept him outside it, as she would have kept some insensible or inanimate object had such been responsible for Ironsyde's end.
Some of the old North American Indians followed a similar custom, the oldest son throttling the father when he grew too old to hunt." "But even there infanticide was more popular than patricide," Farrell pointed out.
Quotes with PATRICIDE (2)
Careers are not made in a family business, they are born — by patricide. Then they die from neglect, and avoid the tragedy of being put out of business.
Thieves are not so bad, and killing wears all possible costumes. There is no death, no murder that is better than any other. If you can kill me, the manner hardly bears consideration. You want to kill your own father, and you think it will make your sleep easier for the next seventy years if you can say you did it honorably. But your honor is blackened by patricide, and no amount of high-sounding formalities will make it white again.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1957–1993).