[f. L. vāti-, stem of vātēs prophet + -CIDE 1.] One who kills a prophet. Also fig.
1728. Pope, Dunc., II. 74. Then first (if Poets aught of truth declare) The caitiff Vaticide conceiv’d a prayer.
1746. Smollett, Reproof, 171. I see with joy, the vaticide deplore An hell-denouncing priest and sov’reign whore. Ibid. (1749), Regicide, Pref. p. vii. My Patience being by this Time quite exhausted, I desired a Gentleman who interested himself in my Concerns, to go and expostulate with the Vaticide [sc. the Manager of Drury-lane Theatre].
