Crossword clues for matricide
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Matricide \Mat"ri*cide\, n. [L. matricidium; mater mother + coedere to kill, slay: cf. F. matricide. See Mother, and cf. Homicide.]
The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
[L. matricida: cf. F. matricide.] One who murders one's own mother.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "action of killing one's mother," from French matricide, from Latin matricida "mother-killer," and matricidium "mother-killing," from comb. form of mater "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + -cida "killer," and -cidium "a killing," from caedere "to slay" (see -cide). Meaning "one who kills his mother" is 1630s. Related: Matricidal (adj.). Old English had moðorslaga "matricide, mother-slayer."
Wiktionary
n. 1 The killing of one's mother. 2 A person who kills his or her mother.
WordNet
n. a person who murders their mother
murder of your mother
Wikipedia
Matricide is the act of killing one's mother.
Usage examples of "matricide".
That's one little trap the law lays for matricides - or any kind of murderer.
Those again who have committed crimes, which, although great, are not unpardonable--who in a moment of anger, for example, have done violence to a father or a mother, and have repented for the remainder of, their lives, or, who have taken the life of another under the like extenuating circumstances--these are plunged into Tartarus, the pains of which they are compelled to undergo for a year, but at the end of the year the wave casts them forth--mere homicides by way of Cocytus, parricides and matricides by Pyriphlegethon--and they are borne to the Acherusian lake, and there they lift up their voices and call upon the victims whom they have slain or wronged, to have pity on them, and to receive them, and to let them come out of the river into the lake.