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The act of murdering your own brother or sister
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fratricide
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who murders their brother or sister the act of murdering your own brother or sister fire that injures or kills an ally [syn: friendly fire ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The killing of one's brother (or sister). 2 A person who commits this crime. 3 (context military by extension English) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "person who kills a brother;" 1560s, "act of killing a brother," from Latin fratricida "brother-slayer," from frater "brother" (see brother ) + cida "killer;" in the later use from cidum "a killing," both from caedere "to kill, to cut down" (see ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fratricide \Frat"ri*cide\, n. [L. fratricidium a brother's murder, fr. fratricida a brother's murderer; frater, fratris, brother + caedere to kill: cf. F. fratricide.] The act of one who murders or kills his own brother. [L. fratricida: cf. F. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fratricide (from the Latin words frater "brother" and cida "killer," or cidum "a killing," both from caedere "to kill, to cut down") is the act of a person, directly or via use of either a hired or an indoctrinated intermediary (an assassin) that ultimately ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At least, he had saved his country from foolish fratricide by unselfishly renouncing the presidency. ▪ The Very Model of a Man is at is best when Cain justifies his fratricide with this lethal logic. ▪ Thus a gene for chromosomal ...
Usage examples of fratricide.
One of many ballads on fratricide, instigated by the mother: or inquired into by her, as the case may be.
The coveter of life in soul and shell, The fratricide, the thief, the infidel, The hoofed and horned.
If Algernon’s fratricides had been made known, Crispin would have been stripped of the title.
In those days, having journeyed a bit in the Italian peninsula, I no longer had firm opinions on the subject: I had heard of the monks of Altopascio, who, when they preached, threatened excommunications and promised indulgences, absolved those who committed robberies and fratricides, homicides and perjury, for money.
He emphasized his refusal to participate in fratricide by dropping Hengest headfirst to the ground.
No one even regarded him as a possibility: fratricide has been held as inconceivable, a lusus naturae, since the days of Cain.